How to Do Chemical Tricks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Do Chemical Tricks, credited to A. Anderson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of How to Do Chemical Tricks by A. Anderson. Read in English by Kyle Van DeGlast While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and relevant for a person interested in basic chemistry or physics tricks, and the devices built in the book can be easily replicated with more modern materials. The book is split up into many little experiments, tricks, with an explanation on how it works, what's happening, and how to reproduce the effects at home.

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Do Chemical Tricks
• Author credits: A. Anderson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 65
• Listed recording duration: 1:54:11

Catalogue topics

• physics
• chemistry
• do-it-yourself
• instructional
• how-to
• party tricks
• will add more before cataloging :d

Opening tracks: first 24 of 65

1. 00 - How to do Chemical Tricks — 4:15
2. 01 - Chemical Affinity, Sympathetic Inks — 5:52
3. 02 - Alum Baskets, Easy Crystallizations — 1:27
4. 03 - Charcoal Coated with Gold, Silver — 2:10
5. 04 - Combustion — 2:19
6. 05 - Chemistry of the Air — 7:52
7. 06 - Amateur Air Pump, Asphyxia, Balloon in a Vacuum, Boiling Cold Water, A Sucking Tube, Cupping — 8:17
8. 07 - The Barometer, A Novel Barometer — 4:36
9. 08 - Compressed Air — 1:57
10. 09 - Noiseless Bell, The Bursting Bladder, Weight of the Air — 1:46
11. 10 - Spoons Which Will Melt in Hot Water — 0:31
12. 11 - Effect of Compression — 0:35
13. 12 - To Cover Iron with Copper — 0:39
14. 13 - The Elements — 1:40
15. 14 - Potassium, Metallic Colors — 4:05
16. 15 - Crystallization of Metals — 1:33
17. 16 - Crystallization, Beauties of Crystallization — 4:30
18. 17 - To Crystallize Camphor — 1:02
19. 18 - A Solid Change to a Liquid — 1:09
20. 19 - Magic of Heat, Sublimation by Heat, Heat Passing Through Glass, Metals Unequally Influenced by Heat — 3:41
21. 20 - Spontaneous Combustion, Inequality of Heat in Fire-Irons, Expasion of Metal by Heat — 1:25
22. 21 - The Alchemist's Ink, Chameleon Liquids, Magic Dyes, Wine Changed into Water — 2:27
23. 22 - The Chemistry of Water — 3:01
24. 23 - Two Bitters Make a Sweet — 0:26

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