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Focus Description:

The performer takes four identical sheets of white paper and hangs each one from the hook of the stand on the table.

Then he brings a lighted match to each sheet of paper. The sheets ignite and burn with a natural yellowish-reddish flame. As soon as they burn out, the performer puts four new sheets of exactly the same paper on the hooks. He lights the match again and brings it to the first sheet of paper - it lights up with a yellow flame. The second leaf flashes blue fire, the third bright red, and finally the fourth green.

Focus secret:

This focus is based on the use of chemical compounds. The performer will need 8 sheets of plain white paper from standard notepads and a metal stand with a crossbar, to which four hooks are screwed at a distance from each other slightly greater than the width of the sheet of paper (Fig. 26, A).

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Fig. 26

The first four sheets do not require any preliminary preparation. The second four sheets of paper are chemically treated with various compounds in advance.

To obtain a yellow flame, a solution of Bertolet salt is prepared with the addition of sodium nitrate. The red flame arises from a solution of Bertolet salt with an admixture of strontium nitrate. A green flame is obtained by using barium nitrate. Blue fire arises from a solution of copper nitrate.

All four strong solutions are prepared in different vessels. Each sheet of paper is thoroughly moistened in one of the solutions and hung to dry with wooden linen clips over the same vessel so that the solution dripping from the paper gets into it. When the paper dries well, it is moistened a second time and dried again. Then do this procedure again and finally dry the sheets. The paper must be moistened in the solution several times so that small crystals of salts are deposited in its pores, which will give the corresponding color to the flame.

Before the focus is demonstrated, four sheets of chemically treated paper are stacked and placed next to the usual four sheets on the table. First, ordinary sheets of paper are burned, and then specially prepared ones. This will enhance the effect of the number.

Author: Akopyan A.A.

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