Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction! ! ! ! ! ! ! 9 ! Chapter 1 Fossil Fuel Combustion! ! ! ! 13 " A. The Barking Bunny Can #" " " " 15 " B. The Tube Cannon #" " " " " 20 Chapter 2 Hydrogen from Kitchen Stuff! ! ! 23 ! A. Preparing Hydrogen Gas ! ! ! ! 26 ! B. Exploding a Hydrogen Balloon ! ! ! 30 Chapter 3 Hot Hydrogen Applications! ! ! 33 ! A. Floating Hydrogen on Air ####" " 1. Balloons with Messages " " " 35 ####" " 2. Balloons with Gliders " " " 37 " B. Making Hydrogen go Bang ####" " 1. Make a Tube whistle & jump " " 39 ####" " 2. Produce floating & flaming Bubbles " 41 ####" " 3. Produce an Eggsothermic Reaction " 43 ####" " 4. Make an Exploding Boom Box " " 45 Chapter 4 Dihydrogen Monoxide! ! ! ! 49 " A. The Balloon-and-Water trick " " " 55 " B. Boiling water in a Paper pan " " " 57 " C. Igniting Bubbles on your Hand " " " 60 Chapter 5 Silicon from Sand!! ! ! ! 63 ! Extracting Silicon from Sand !! ! ! 65 Chapter 6 Magnesium Pencil Sharpener Secrets! ! 73 ! A. Can Iron burn?! ! ! ! ! 73 ! B. Burning a Metal Pencil Sharpener in steam! 75 " C. Drawing Electricity from a Pencil Sharpener # ####" " 1. Cathodic protection "" " " 81 ####" " 2. A Galvanic cell " " " " 83 Chapter 7 Sugar can go Bang!! ! ! ! 85 ! A. Sugar Dust Explosion ! ! ! ! 87 Chapter 8 Sugar can go Whoosh!! ! ! ! 93 ! A. Build & Launch a Sugar-Based Rocket ! ! 96 ! B. Prepare Fire Paper! ! ! ! ! 106 Chapter 9 Touch Sensitive Chemicals! ! ! 109 ! Prepare Ammonia Nitrogen Triiodide 7

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