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
