Frozen water. Effective trick and its solution

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Frozen water. Focus Secret

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Focus Description:

On the table are a jug of water and a glass. Show the glass to the audience - nothing special, just an empty glass. Pour water from a jug into a glass, cover with a sheet of clean paper and immediately turn it over.

“That's all,” you say. - And now look - the water is frozen. And then you raise your glass. Everyone is surprised - the water really froze, exactly taking the shape of a glass.

Focus secret:

The glass has an insert of collodion (4% solution of trinitrocellulose in a mixture of ethanol and diethyl ether in a ratio of 1:7), which dries quickly, forming a very thin transparent and fairly strong film. They are poured over the inside of the glass and allowed to harden slightly.

After the collodion is completely dry, the resulting film will easily separate from the glass. The walls of the insert, tightly adhering to the walls of the glass, create the illusion of an empty vessel. To prevent water from spilling out of an inverted glass, it is quite enough to press a piece of paper tightly against its edges, located on the same level as the edges of the insert.

In this case, there should be no air bubbles in the water. To avoid them, you need to fill the glass with water "with a top". Now you can casually turn it over without fear that the liquid will spill out. It remains to carefully remove the glass from the collodion, leaving the insert with water on paper. It will seem that the water froze in front of the audience.

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