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