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Copyright informationCopyright Carus Publishing Company Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Secret writing is very old, and there are lots of invisible ink recipes. These inks work in different ways to hide and reveal messages written with them.
Some invisible inks-like milk, vinegar, or lemon juice-darken when they're heated. You can read messages written with them because they burn faster than the paper they're written on.
Other secret inks are solutions of chemicals that are colorless when dry but become visible when treated with another chemical, called a reagent.
Messages can even be written inside eggs, using a mixture of vinegar and a chemical called alum. Messages written with this ink ...
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