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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 118

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erwe need no more to convince us of the phenomenon of CHEMISTRY WITHOUT A LABORATORY. lOI carbonization (the paper is transformed into a black mass)and the formation of empyreumatic products under theaction of heat. Beneath the burned paper we shall find ayellow deposit, which clings to the… … Fig 83.—Production of Gas with a Paper Cone. the bowl up with fire-clay. Place the bowl ,of the pipein the fire, and after a while the gas will evolve from th^aperture in the stem. It can then be lighted. If thepipe be not available you may have recourse to a largepiece of wrapping paper, which you…

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