A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments,: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.Unknown
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A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments,: Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.
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Formulas, recipes, etc.; Workshop recipes
68. To cast images in plaster, 73
69. To produce embossed letters on marble, 74
70. To soften stone, 75
71. To change wood, apparently, to stone, 76
72. To render wood, cloth or paper, fire proof 77
73-75. To produce fire readily, 77
76. To make super-combustible matches, 78
77. To make gun powder, 79
78. To make the common fulminating powder, 80
79. To make mercurial fulminating powder, 80
80. To kindle a fire under water, 82
81. To light a candle by application of ice, 82
82. To form letters or flowers of real flame, 83
83. To produce flame of various colours, 84
84. To make sky rockets and fire wheels, 85
85. To produce detonating balloons, 87
86. To prepare a phial that will give light in the dark, 89
87. To make a person's face appear luminous in the dark, 89
88. To freeze water in warm weather, 90
89. To change the colours of animals, 91
90. To give leather a beautiful metallic lustre, 92
91. An easy method of extracting the essence of roses, 92
92. To prepare various kinds of essences, 93
93. To prepare soda water, 94
94-95. To produce metallic trees, 95
96. To tin copper by boiling, 96
97. A metal that will melt in hot water, 96
98. Illustration of calico printing, 96
99. To prepare an imitation of gold bronze, 99
100. To procure the exhilarating gas, 99
101. Construction of the galvanic pile or battery, 101
102. Construction of the oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, 102
103. To make a dry phosphorescent powder, 104
104. Curious experiment of precipitation, 105
105. To make a beautiful soft glass for jewelry, 105
106. Composition of various kinds of glass, 106
107. Composition of various alloys, 107
108. To produce various kinds of gas, 108
109. Various chemical tests, 110
110. To produce a picture instantly, 111
111. A cheap imitation of silver bronze, 112
112. To make crayons of various colours, 113
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