Table of Contents

Introduction Mystery Demonstrations Be Careful "Motion, Sound and Color" The Stage Visibility Magic Platter Demonstrations I. Foams Black Foam Pharaoh's Serpent II. Color Changes; Invisible Inks Bloody Picture Jug of Mystery Hot and Cold Colors Invisible Ink Magic Powders Liquid Thermometer Magical Writing Mystery Water Patriotic Colors Red and Blue Cloth Water to Wine to Coffee Whiskey to Water Wine to Water to Milk Water to Milk to Water Wonder Picture Acid Breath III. Gas Liberation; Bubbling Bubbling Columns Educated Moth Balls Fire Extinguisher Magical Eggs Soap Bubbles Carbon Monoxide Mysterious Balloons IV. Air Pressure Blowing Through Glass Egg in a Bottle Fast Rusting Heavy Air Geyser Mystery Fountain Oxygen in Air Obedient Bottle Syphon Fountain Upside-Down Water Glass V. Boiling Liquids and Vaporization Boiling Water in Paper Phosphorus Glow Cold Boiling Drinking Bird VI. Fires and Combustion Blue Flare Burning Sugar Lump Candle Tricks Burning Water Cold Fire Glowing Steel Ball Disappearing Flame Flare Eating a Candle Ether Fires Fire Spray Fireworks Fire Water Fire Writing Glowing Splint Fire in the Water Fire Wand Glowworm Obedient Candle Delayed Fire Self-Lighting Candles Rat Nest Spontaneous Fires Test Tube Fire Turpentine Fire Thermite Reaction Volcano Smoke Screens and Explosions VII. Explosions Chemical Cannon Dust Explosions Exploding Flame Phosphorus Explosion Nitrogen Triiodide Explosions VIII. Crystallization and Precipitation Chemical Garden Crystal Growth Crystal Moss Crystals Lead Tree Orange Tree Snow Tree Freezing Without Cooling IX. Freezing and Gel Formation Cold Gas Fast Freezing Hard Water Regelation X. Smoke and Vapors Violet Vapors Violet Smoke Smoke Smoke Blown Through Glass Smoke Producer Smoke Rings XI. Specific Gravity Floaters Wine Tower XII. Polymerization Synthetic Rubber Nylon Rope Trick XIII. Delayed or Consecutive Reactions Disappearing Blue Disappearing Orangeade Magic Ink Synthetic Gold Oscillating Clock Reaction XIV. Miscellaneous Disappearing Beaker Osmosis Pulsing Mercury Glass Dissolves in Water Vibratory Motion