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The Boy Chemist by A. Frederick Collins Well regarded as a prolific and rare chemistry book with hundreds of chemistry experiments and lessons. Featuring 172 Illustrations to clearly show the processes. Created in the golden age of chemical availability. CONTENTS CHAPTER I WHAT YOU NEED TO EXPERIMENT WITH – The Apparatus You Need – What the Apparatus Consists of – How to Make a Ring Stand – How to Make an Alcohol Lamp – How to Make a Bunsen Burner – How to Make a Test-Tube Rack – Your Supply of Chemicals – Indicator Papers and Solutions – How Litmus Paper Acts – How Phenolphthalein Acts – How Methyl Orange Acts – How Congo Red Acts – How Sulphide Test Paper Acts – How to Work Glass Tubing – How to Cut a Glass Tube – How to Smooth Up the Sharp Edges – How to Bend Glass Tubing – How to Draw a Glass Nozzle CHAPTER II AIR, THE MIRACLE-WORKER – The Height of the Atmosphere – The Weight, or Pressure, of the Air Experiment to Show that the Air Has Weight – What an Element is Experiments to show – What a Mechanical Mixture Is – Experiment to Show What a Chemical Compound Is – What the Air is Good for – About Burning and Combustion – What Rusting, or Oxidation, Is – Experiment to Show How Iron Rusts – Experiment to Show that Other Metals Rust – Experiment to show that Air Is Used Up When Iron Rusts – How Slow Oxidation Causes Decay – What Spontaneous Combustion Is – Substances that Oxygen Will Not Affect – How to Make Ozone – How to Test for Ozone CHAPTER III EXPERIMENTS WITH OXYGEN, NITROGEN, AND CARBON DIOXIDE – A Simple Way to Make Oxygen – A Way to Make More Oxygen – The Self-Lighting Match – The Flashing Charcoal Pill – The Scintillating Watch-Spring – The Strange Action of Oxygen on Phosphorus – How to Make an Oxy-Calcium Light – How the Oxy-Calcium Light Works -How Sulphur Burns in Oxygen – A Simple Way to Make Nitrogen – Another Easy Way to Make Nitrogen – How to Make a Larger Amount of Nitrogen – The Self-Extinguishing Match – What Else the Experiment Shows – How to Show there is Carbon Dioxide in the Air – To Show That You Inhale Oxygen and Exhale Carbon Dioxide – How to Make Carbon Dioxide- A Better Way to Make Carbon Dioxide – To Show that Carbon Dioxide Will Not Support Combustion – To Show that Carbon Dioxide Destroys Life – A Magical Experiment With Air, Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen – To Show that Carbon Dioxide Has Weight – To Separate a Candle from Its Flame – The Levitation of a Soap Bubble CHAPTER IV THE WIZARDRY OF WATER – Some Characteristics of Water – What Water Is Made of – What Water Is Good for – How to Purify Water – How to Filter Water – How to Boil Water – How to Distil Water – Tests for the Purity of Distilled Water – How to Raise the Temperature of Water – How to Lower the Temperature of Water – How to Make Ice-What Water of Crystallization Is – How to See the Water of Crystallization – How to Make Rock Candy Crystals – How to Make a Secret Writing Ink – How to Make a Weather Forecaster – How to Make Imitation Ground Glass – Kinds of Water – How to Tell if Water Is Soft or Hard – How to Test for and Get Rid of Temporary Hardness – How to Test for and Get Rid of Permanent Hardness – How to Test Water for Odor and Color – How to Test Water for Mineral Substances – How to Test Water for Organic Matter – How to Test Water for Carbon Dioxide – How to Test Water for Alkalis – How to Test Water for Lime – How to Test Water for Acids – How to Test Water for Iron – How to Test Water for Sulphur CHAPTER V EXPERIMENTS WITH HYDROGEN – How to Analyze Water – How to Make Synthetic Water with an Electric Spark – How to Make Synthetic Water with an Alcohol Flame – How to Make Hydrogen – How to Make Hydrogen without an Acid – How to Pour Out Hydrogen – The Diffusion of Hydrogen – How to Make a Hydrogen Flame – How Hydrogen Acts on Flame – How to Blow Hydrogen Soap Bubbles – How to Blow Hydrogen Cauliflower Soap Bubbles – How to Blow Resin Bubbles – How to Make a Self Lighting Flame – How Hydrogen Acts on Silver Nitrate – How Hydrogen Acts on Sound – How to Make a Hydrogen – Flame Organ Pipe – How to Purify Hydrogen Gas – How to Dry Hydrogen CHAPTER VI A PAIR OF SMELLY GASES – About Chlorine and Ammonia Gases – Experiments with Chlorine – How to Make Chlorine – How to Test for Chlorine – How Chlorine Acts on Flame – Spontaneous Combustion – How to Make a Smoke Screen – The Art of Bleaching – How to Test the Bleaching Power of Chlorine – To Make a Red Rose White – How to Make Bleaching Powder – How to Make a Bleaching Liquid – How to Make a Bandanna Handkerchief – Experiment with Ammonia – How to Make a Little Ammonia – How to Make Ammonia on a Large Scale – To Show How Ammonia Dissolves in Water – How to Make an Ammonia-Operated Fountain – How to Make Concentrated Liquid Ammonia – An Experiment with Concentrated Liquid Ammonia – Some Uses of Aqua Ammonia CHAPTER VII ACIDS, THE GREAT SOLVENTS – About Sulphuric Acid – The Easiest Way to Make Sulphuric Acid – A Better Way to Make Sulphuric Acid – Another Method for Making Sulphuric Acid – A Laboratory Method for Making Sulphuric Acid – How to Make Sulphur Dioxide – How to Make Sulphur Trioxide – How to Make Sulphuric Acid – Experiments with Sulphuric Acid – How to Change Sugar into Carbon – How to Write Indelibly on Cotton Goods – How to Make Copperas – How to Make Blue Vitriol – How to Make Epsom Salts – About Nitric Acid – How to Make Nitric Acid – Experiments with Nitric Acid – An Experiment in Spontaneous Combustion – The Action of Nitric Acid on Metals – About Hydrochloric Acid – To Make Hydrogen Chloride – To Make Hydrochloric Acid – Experiments with Hydrochloric Acid – How to Make a Hydrogen-Chloride Fountain – The Great Smoke Experiment – How to Make a Good Soldering Fluid – How to Make Imitation Emeralds – How to Make Aqua Regia – About Fluorine and Hydrofluoric Acid – How to Etch Glass – An Easier Way to Etch on Glass – How to Change Water into Ozone CHAPTER VIII WHAT BASES AND SALTS ARE – How Acids and Bases Form Salts – What the Bases Are – What the Salts Are – How to Make Calcium Hydroxide (Caustic Lime) – How to Make Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda) – How to Make Potassium Hydroxide (Caustic Potash) – Experiments with Hydroxides – How to Make Mortar – Other Things Made with Lime – How to Make Hard Soap – How to Make Soft Soap – How Soap-and-Water Cleans – How to Make Various Salts – Sodium Chloride (Common Table Salt) – Sodium Sulphate (Glauber’s Salt) – Sodium Nitrate (Chili Saltpeter) – Potassium Chloride – Potassium Nitrate (Saltpeter) CHAPTER IX THE MYSTIC METALS – THEIR ALLOYS AND AMALGAMS – How the Elements Are Classified – The Activity of the Metals – Table of Activities-Potassium, the Softest Metal – Compounds of Potassium – An Experiment with Potassium – Sodium, Another Alkali Metal – Compounds of Sodium – An Experiment with Sodium Lithium, the Lightest Metal – Compounds of Lithium – An Experiment with Lithium-Calcium, the Fourth Alkaline Metal – Compounds of Calcium – Experiments with Calcium – Magnesium, the Metal that Burns – Compounds of Magnesium-Experiments with Magnesium – Aluminum, the Lightest Common Metal – An Experiment with Aluminum – Manganese, the Hardening Metal – Compounds of Manganese – An Experiment with Manganese – Zinc, the Electric Metal – Compounds of Zinc – An Experiment with Zinc Chromium, the Color – Making Metal – Experiments with Chromium – Iron, the Most Useful Metal – An Experiment with Iron – Nickel, the Non-Rusting Metal – How to Nickel-plate a Coin-Tin, the Soft, Malleab1e Metal – An Experiment with Tin-Lead, the Heavy Metal – How to Make a Lead-Tree – Copper, the Prehistoric Metal – An Experiment with Copper – Bismuth, the Easily Fusible Metal – Experiments with Bismuth – Antimony, the Metal that Expands – Experiments with Antimony – Mercury, the Liquid Metal – An Experiment with Mercury – Silver, the Queen of Metals – An Experiment with Silver – Gold, the King of Metals – An Experiment with Gold – Platinum, the Regal Metal – How Alloys Are Made – Alloys of Magnesium and Aluminum – Alloys of Iron and Steel Alloys of Tin and Lead – Alloys of Copper – Silver Alloys – Gold Alloys – How Amalgams Are Made – A Sodium Amalgam – A Zinc Amalgam – Tin and Zinc Amalgams CHAPTER X CHEMISTRY SIMPLY EXPLAINED – What Matter Is – What the Properties of Matter Are – First Experiment – Second Experiment – The Three Common Forms of Matter – What Matter Is Built Up of – What the Elements Are – How the Elements Got Their Names – What the Symbols Mean- What the Symbols Show – What Equations Are CHAPTER XI FIRE, FLAME, HEAT, AND LIGHT – What Fire Is-What Flame Is – What Heat Is-What Light Is – Ways of Making Heat and Fire – How a Candle Burns – How Ventilation Affects Combustion – How the Davy Safety-Lamp Works – How an Alcohol Lamp Burns – How Oil and Gas Lamps Burn – How a Bunsen Burner Works – Experiments with a Bunsen Burner – How to Light the Burner – The Luminous Flame of the Burner – The Non-Luminous Flame of the Burner – How to Make Colored Flames – How to Make Charcoal – How Charcoal Is Made – What Coal Is – How to Make Coal Gas CHAPTER XII HOW TO MAKE PHOTOGRAPHS – What Light Is – How Light Acts – How Light Acts on Silver – How to Make Silver Nitrate – Experiments with a Silver Nitrate Solution – How to Make Silver Chloride – Action of Light on Silver Chloride – How to Make a Pinhole Camera – How the Camera Works – How a Real Camera Is Made – How Dry Plates and Films Are Made – How a Picture Is Made on a Dry Plate or Film – How to Develop a Dry Plate or a Film – How to Fix the Picture – How to Make a Print from a Negative – Kinds of Printing Papers – Silver Papers – How to Make a Print – How to Tone the Print – How to Fix the Print – How to Make a Velox Print – How to Make and Use Blue Paper CHAPTER XIII THE WHITE MAGIC OF CHEMISTRY – Pouring Wine and Water from the Same Pitcher – Changing Water into Ink, and Vice Versa – The Blushing Bride – The Magical Atomizer – The Rainbow Liquid – Breathing a Picture on Glass – Passing Smoke Invisibly into a Tumbler – Elixir Vitae, or the Artificial Production of Life – How to Make Secret Writing Inks – A Heat Sympathetic Ink – A Light Sympathetic Ink – A Fluorescent Sympathetic Ink – How to Make Spirit Pictures – The Materialization of Mysteria CHAPTER XIV SAFE AND SANE FIREWORKS – How to Make Fire without a Match – Writing with Fire Ink – Rapid Oxidation of Zinc – How to Make a Safe Fuse – How to Make a Flash-Light – How to Make Explosive Matches – How to Make Rainbow Lights – How to Make Fourth of July Sparklers – How to Make a White Flash-Light – How to Make a Red Flash-Light – How to Make a Green Flash-Light – How to Make Flash Paper – How to Make Colored Flash Paper – How to Make Flash Handkerchiefs – How to Light a Paper without a Flame – How to Light a Paper with a Piece of Ice – The Great Fire-Eating Trick – How to Make Colored Fire – Red Fire – Green Fire – Yellow Fire – Bengal Lights – How to Make Phosphine Smoke Rings – How to Make Pharaoh’s Serpents CHAPTER XV USEFUL HOUSEHOLD RECIPES – How to Make Soaps – Toilet Soap – Perfumed Soap – Colored Soap – Floating Soap – Glycerine Soap – Sapolio – How to Make a Safe Dry-Cleansing Compound – How to Take Out Spots and Stains – A Fresh Grease Spot – Old Grease Spots – Paint Spots – Ink Spots – Iron-Rust Stains – Alkali Spots – Mildew Stains – How to Make Bleaching Compounds – For Cotton and Linen Goods – For Wool and Silk – For Hair and Wool – How to Make Disinfectants – How to Make and Use Natural-Color Dyes – Direct or Substantive Dyes – Red Logwood Dye – Black Logwood Dye – Green Logwood Dye – Yellow Tumeric Dye – Brown Tumeric Dye – Bright Red Cochineal Dye – Orange Cochineal Dye – Violet Cochineal Dye – Insoluble Dyes – To Dye Indigo Blue – To Dye Tumeric Yellow – Mordant, or Adjective, Dyes – How to Make and Use Aniline Dyes – Direct Aniline Dyes for Cotton Goods – Mordant Aniline Dyes for Cotton Goods – Acid Colors for Silk and Woolen Goods – How to Make Inks – Black Ink – Blue Ink – Purple Ink – Red Ink – Green Ink – Printer’s Ink – Some Other Useful Recipes – How to Make a Liquid Ink Eraser – How to Make a Good China Cement – How to Make an Adhesive Paste – How to Make Fire-Extinguishing Compounds – How to Clean Silverware Chemically – How to Clean Silverware Electrically – How to Waterproof Goods – How to Fireproof Goods – How to Make a Hair-Remover
