Write another (not secret) message on the paper with ballpoint pen, pencil or crayon, so it doesn’t appear to be blank and meaningless.Let the message dry in the air or use a hairdryer. Use the ink by writing your message with it using a paintbrush, spill, cotton bud, straw with a cut end to make a nib, or toothpick with cloth wrapped around it. ![]() The tiles heat up but protect the paper from burning.) White tiles (For using on the hotplate.Paintbrushes (and/or straws, cotton buds, spills).Sucrose (table sugar) solution (1 tsp in 10 cm 3 water).Soapy water (or 0.1 M sodium carbonate).Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) (or 1 M sodium hydrogen carbonate).Heat-activated invisible inks Equipment:Īny of the following for your invisible inks: How you reveal the message depends on the ink you used. It would be good to use different types of ink as advised by your teacher. Pass the message to another group who will write an answer to the question and pass it back to you to develop. Use one of the methods below to write a question on a piece of white paper. ![]() Like all good science-artists, you decide to investigate further… You wonder if there is a way of writing with an ink that is only visible under certain conditions. You have been tasked by King Agis of Sparta to develop a way of delivering secret messages to his armies, which would be unreadable if they fell into the enemies’ hands. It is 410BCE and the Ionian (or Decelean) war, between Athens and Sparta has been raging for four years.
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