Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 80
a drachm of phosphorus. Let the neck or beak of the retortdip into a saucer of water, say half an inch deep ; now very gently NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. is heat the liquid in the retort with a spirit-lamp until it boils. In afew minutes the retort will be filled with a white cloud,… … Fig. 23. same time the philosophers ring of phosphoric acid. Care is re-quired in handling phosphorus; but our young chemical readerswill, we think, not forego this wonderful experiment for the wantof due attention, for, without proper care on their part, we mustgive up showing them wonders, even…
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