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Glass Making Easy for Home Chemist (Oct, 1934)
Glass Making Easy for Home Chemist By Raymond B. Wailes BECAUSE of its importance in glass making and other industries, silicon opens a particularly interesting experimental field to the home chemist....
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Dry Ice-Capades (Nov, 1947)
Dry Ice-Capades Dry ice is very interesting stuff! Get yourself a chunk (handling it with gloves) and perform the simple experiments illustrated here. DRY ice is solid carbon dioxide. It’s very...
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CONVERT OLD LIGHT BULBS INTO CHEMICAL GLASSWARE (Nov, 1933)
How TO CONVERT OLD ELECTRIC LIGHT BULBS INTO CHEMICAL GLASSWARE By Earl D Hay EXPERIMENTS in an amateur chemical laboratory are much more interesting when they are made with the same kind of apparatus...
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Hints for Beginners in Amateur Chemistry (Jun, 1939)
Hints for Beginners in Amateur Chemistry Join in the Fun of Experimenting at Home! This Article Tells How Easy It Is to Start By RAYMOND B. WAILES IF YOU have been following this series of articles...
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PRACTICAL AND MYSTIFYING HOME TESTS YOU CAN MAKE WITH IRON (Aug, 1933)
PRACTICAL AND MYSTIFYING HOME TESTS YOU CAN MAKE WITH IRON By Raymond B. Wailes MYSTIFYING and spectacular ‘effects give a keen interest to home experiments with iron and its compounds. The amateur...
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Amuse Friends with CHEMICAL Stunts (Apr, 1934)
Amuse Friends with CHEMICAL Stunts DO YOU like to dabble with chemicals? It was a hobby with Thomas A. Edison during his youth and formed the basis of an education that later brought thousands of new...
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How Scientists Are Taking the Pinch Out of America’s Billion-Dollar Shoe Bill...
How Scientists Are Taking the Pinch Out of America’s Billion-Dollar Shoe Bill New Tanning Discoveries Will Bring You Cheaper Footwear By John Walker Harrington WELL-SHOD feet are among the essentials...
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Dangerous ACIDS MADE SAFELY BY Home Chemist (Jul, 1934)
Dangerous ACIDS MADE SAFELY BY Home Chemist By Raymond B. Wailes BECAUSE they enter into a wide variety of reactions, acids form an interesting and important group of chemicals. By preparing them in...
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Experiments With Oxygen FOR THE AMATEUR CHEMIST (Nov, 1936)
Experiments With Oxygen FOR THE AMATEUR CHEMIST A few common chemicals supplied by the druggist and simple apparatus is all that is required to produce these interesting experiments with oxygen. by...
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Boy Chemist “Eats Up” Course in Foodstuffs (Dec, 1938)
Boy Chemist “Eats Up” Course in Foodstuffs Relationship between the fields of chemistry and cookery is the research project that interests seventeen-year-old Edgar Friedenberg, the youngest man ever...
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FUN with the HALOGENS (Sep, 1939)
FUN with the HALOGENS HOME EXPERIMENTS WITH A FAMOUS CHEMICAL FAMILY By RAYMOND B. WAILES WHENEVER the members of the halogen family put on an act, you can be sure there will be something doing in the...
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Spectacular Fireworks (Aug, 1936)
Spectacular Fireworks By STANLEY STEWART IN making fireworks, if the experimenter will always remember that he is dealing with explosives that may pop off at any moment, and therefore exercises...
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England Now Has Gasoline Made from Coal (Feb, 1934)
England Now Has Gasoline Made from Coal British motorists may now enjoy the novelty of buying gasoline made from coal, which has just been placed on public sale. The event marks the beginning of a...
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CHEMISTRY – BIG LABORATORY GIVEN FREE! (Sep, 1955)
CHEMISTRY BIG LABORATORY GIVEN FREE! Are you looking for a WONDERFUL FUTURE that can start at home right now? The NATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY offers a fascinating: correspondence course in PRACTICAL...
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Amateur Chemist’s Robot (Apr, 1936)
Amateur Chemist’s Robot Hyman Cordon, chemical student, of Boston, with a “man” he built out of rubber, glass, and other scraps. It eats food and digests it in human fashion, having heart, intestines,...
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INDUSTRY GIVES A LABORATORY TO AMERICA’S YOUNG SCIENTISTS (May, 1941)
INDUSTRY GIVES A LABORATORY TO AMERICA’S YOUNG SCIENTISTS YOUTHFUL, IMAGINATION, an inexhaustible national resource, is being developed along scientific lines by the American Institute of the City of...
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Electronics Tells The Chemist (Jun, 1960)
unusual compounds find uses because Electronics Tells The Chemist By Shirley Motter Linde THERE are about 750,000 known organic chemical compounds. Less than one percent of these have any known...
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Inventions Needed in Field of Electrochemistry (Aug, 1937)
Inventions Needed in Field of Electrochemistry An interview with Professor Colin G. Fink Head, Division of Electrochemistry Columbia University by Richard H. Parke “THE young inventor looking for new...
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ADVENTURES of the POISON SQUAD (Aug, 1937)
ADVENTURES of the POISON SQUAD by James Nevin Miller IN THE city of White Plains, N. Y., not so long ago, more than 700 people suddenly were stricken with a mysterious ailment. City authorities...
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“HOT DOGS” IN THE LAB (Nov, 1955)
“HOT DOGS” IN THE LAB by Harry M. Schwalb Condensed from The Laboratory In 1939 the hot dog hit the front pages of the international press when President Roosevelt’s wife served it to the king and...
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A “Down the CELLAR” Chem Lab (May, 1930)
A “Down the CELLAR” Chem Lab by FREDERICK O. SCHUBERT Here are some interesting experiments you can perform with simple chemicals, with notes on building the beginnings of your own basement chemistry...
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Name Elements 99 and 100 (Dec, 1955)
Name Elements 99 and 100 Two great scientists who died within the last year, Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, have been honored by the naming of elements 99 einsteinium and 100 fermium. The symbol...
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Unlocking Fortunes from Atoms (Mar, 1932)
Unlocking Fortunes from Atoms by Jay Earle Miller Now that chemists have discovered the last element, it remains for the research worker to find practical uses for substances which are at present mere...
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Twin Discovered for Carbon (Feb, 1930)
This article is trying to describe the discovery of the isotope carbon-13 in 1929 Twin Discovered for Carbon CARBON is the latest chemical element to be shown to have a twin. Last winter two California...
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make your own BUBBLE COMPOUND (May, 1950)
Glim was a brand of dish washing soap make your own BUBBLE COMPOUND WITH a startling new formula worked out particularly for MI readers, you can produce rainbow-colored bubbles that last longer and are...
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Glimpses of of Men in the Public Eye (May, 1929)
Glimpses of of Men in the Public Eye WHEN, a little more than ten years ago, Edward R. Armstrong first propounded his idea of building a series of great floating airdromes and anchoring them at...
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Mystifying With Chemical Magic (Sep, 1936)
I like how it states that all of the stunts are harmless then proceeds to explain all the ways the ingredients are not. Mystifying With Chemical Magic WHILE all stunts described above are harmless,...
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Chemical Experiments with Chlorine (Jan, 1934)
Chemical Experiments with Chlorine • A VERY interesting series of experiments may be carried out with chlorine, in the formation of both organic and inorganic compounds of a wide range of application....
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Chemical Engineering for Home Experimenters (Nov, 1939)
Chemical Engineering for Home Experimenters By RAYMOND B. WAILES HOW would you like to transform your home laboratory into a miniature factory for obtaining useful products from minerals, with...
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Physical and Chemical Tricks! (Sep, 1936)
Physical and Chemical Tricks! A few stunts the embryo scientist can present to his audience which are sure to mystify, astound or amaze them. All of the chemicals” used are readily available in the...
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