Level 2
Glowing Green Liquid Recipe - Take a glass or plastic container that will hold two pints of water. The color of the liquid depends on the color of highlighter pens that you use, open up two highlighters of the same color and put the contents into the water. Mash the highlighter material with the back of a large spoon. Soon the water will turn very neon. This is your concentrated liquid, dilute with regular water to reach desired brightness.
Now Presenting, "Complements/Reciprocal Relationships"
One hen, two ducks...
Delayed Fire
Action:
Several drops of liquid from a medicine dropper fall into a paper cup place over a metal mat. After several seconds a reaction takes place with a burst of flames.
You Need:
Why:
Pulverized potassium permanganate oxidized glycerine rapidly. Heat generated results in a flame.
How:
Place the paper cup containing the potassium permanganate on a mat. Glycerin is then dropped into the cup.
Suggestions:
You may use an iron crucible in place of a paper cup. If the crucible has been warmed previously, an immediate reaction takes place. Otherwise, a period of up to a minute will elapse before the flame occurs. This experiment is most effective in a darkened room.
Pages 62 & 63 of Chemical Magic, second edition, by Leonard A. Ford. Revised by E. Winston Grundmeier and published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, # 0-486-67628-5.