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Credit: Optics Express.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The best instruments get that information without damaging the artwork, often with light beams. Near-infrared light can help scientists \u003ca href=\"http://cenblog.org/artful-science/2011/05/27/diagnosing-the-devil-inside/\">identify the chemical composition\u003c/a> of degradable plastics and iron ink. It also penetrates a painting’s surface, helping restorers find any lines or cracks below the top layer of paint. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-20-13-14746\">new technique\u003c/a> developed by Italian researchers offers a clearer picture of pictures hidden underneath frescoes. The scientists shine a low power halogen lamp on the fresco and detect the reflected mid-wave infrared (IR) light with a wavelength about 3 micrometers long. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2012/04/2012-04-09-quest.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to environmental policy, no state has paved the way more often than California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians didn't just invent iPads and commercial microprocessors; they brought to life laws promoting clean water, clean air, laws that eventually went on to become national policy, credited with cleaning up vast swaths of the country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34942\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/04/sofa_scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/04/sofa_scaled-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sofa\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-34942\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An average-sized sofa can contain two pounds of flame-retardant chemicals. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But sometimes, the picture is less clear. 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But the bill was killed in committee by a vote of seven to one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the lawmakers who voted on the bill had received campaign contributions from the chemical industry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno says it's not hard to see those lobbying dollars in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever one of his flame retardants bills would come up for a vote, he says, he’d pay a visit to each of the committee members, just before the vote, to make his case. But the lobbyists outnumbered him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repeatedly, as I would leave a colleague’s office, an hour or two before the committee hearing racing to get to another office, in the waiting room of the office I’m leaving is a lobbyist for the chemical industry. So they’d have the last word,” says Leno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n(Update: Read about how a Seattle burn doctor misled California lawmakers with the fictional story of an infant burn victim in the Chicago Tribune's four-part series, \"\u003ca href=\"http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html\">Playing with Fire\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a state lawmaker, Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell, from Los Angeles, introduced -- and then quickly withdrew -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2197_bill_20120223_introduced.html\">her own bill\u003c/a> on the topic. A spokesperson said Mitchell decided she was too busy, but would pick it up next year. Since 2011, Mitchell has taken $3,500 from the chemical industry.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n(For more on how campaign dollars from the chemical industry have helped keep flame retardants in furniture, see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/author/lizagross/\">Liza Gross\u003c/a>' 2011 special report in Environmental Health News, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2011/money-to-burn\">Money to Burn\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to find supporters of TB 117 who aren’t in some way connected to the same companies that produce flame retardant chemicals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Lang is a former tobacco lobbyist with the firm Lang, Hansen, O'Malley & Miller, in Sacramento, whose clients include the American Chemistry Council, a chemical industry group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last April, Lang argued that changes to the California law are unnecessary because many of the most harmful flame retardants, a group called PBDEs, have already been banned. Newer alternatives, he said, are safer than the old ones. He said that over-regulating this industry would squelch innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we continue to ban chemicals that are developed before they're used, we won't have any chemicals to be used. We won't be able to create the jobs we want to create in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nDo flame retardants in furniture prevent fires?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lang and others in the industry say that flame retardant chemicals, and the law that requires them, TB 117, serve a critical purpose: They prevent fires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Lucas, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist, and his colleague Vyto Babrauskas researched exactly \u003ca href=\"http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/243nm/program/view.php\">this question\u003c/a>: Do flame retardant chemicals prevent fires? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our conclusions were that we really don’t need the flame retardants in the foam in home furnishing,\" said Lucas. We don’t think the TB 117 standard is very good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemicals don’t work, he says, because fires don’t start inside sofas. They start on the surface of the sofa, on the fabric. California's flammability law, TB 117 law says nothing about the fabric, just the foam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the fabric catches on fire, the flame that the foam is exposed to is much larger than the flame in the test,” says Lucas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, there’s nothing chemicals can do. It’s too late. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foam is going to burn anyway.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there are far fewer fires today than there were in the 1970s, when TB 117 was written. Fewer smokers, as well as laws requiring smoke detectors and sprinklers have made homes safer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Blum at a furniture store in Berkeley. Standing in front of a three-seated sofa, she lifted a cushion and read aloud from the small white tag sewn into the fabric. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This article meets the flammability requirements of the California Bureau of Home Furnishings \u003ca href=\"http://www.bhfti.ca.gov/industry/bulletin.shtml\">Technical Bulletin 117\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A California law's mixed legacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TB 117, as it’s called, is a state law passed in 1975. It says that the foam inside upholstered furniture must be able to resist a flame, for example, from a cigarette lighter, for 12 seconds without catching fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers meet this law by treating the foam with several different kinds of chemicals, up to two pounds of flame retardant chemicals in an average-size sofa, according to Don Lucas, a flammability expert at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the law is specific to California, it affects furniture sold across the country. Major furniture dealers sell California-compliant products in all 50 states, and Canada. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, say Blum and others, is that the chemicals don’t just stay inside the sofas. They turn up in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21239062\">household dust\u003c/a> and can be detected in human blood and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20079522\">breast milk\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/reports/pbdesintoddlers\">Toddlers\u003c/a> often have \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17035146\">higher levels\u003c/a> of the chemicals in their bodies than adults do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One study found that the levels of PBDEs found in bodies of toddlers are similar to what you'd find in people who work in a recycling foam factory. That's two to ten times what you'd find in adults,\" says Ami Zota, a researcher with UCSF's Program on reproductive Health and the Environment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a growing body of evidence demonstrating effects in animals, and not just lab animals, but birds and marine mammals,\" says Linda Birnbaum, who directs the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birnbaum says while effects in humans are less certain, there is good evidence to suggest that some flame retardants, particularly a class called PBDEs, which have been largely phased out sine 2004, can affect the reproductive system, nervous system, as well as learning, memory, and behavior in children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some flame retardant chemicals cause cancer in lab animals. Observational studies of humans suggest connections between the chemicals and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20103495\">infertility\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21878423\">low-birth weight\u003c/a> and abnormal brain development in kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One chemical, known as tris, was used widely in children's pajamas until the 1970s, when scientists, including Arlene Blum, campaigned successfully for a phase out. Tris is considered carcinogenic under California's Proposition 65 but is still used widely in furniture and also \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/business/18chemical.html?pagewanted=all\">turns up\u003c/a> in baby products, such as nursing pillows and changing pads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Industry fights change\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers have tried -- and failed -- five times to change California's law in ways that would reduce or eliminate the use of flame retardant chemicals in furniture. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of those attempts came from one lawmaker, State Senator Mark Leno, who represents Marin and San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno’s last bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0101-0150/sb_147_cfa_20110428_150643_sen_comm.html\">SB 147\u003c/a> had the support of furniture makers, firefighter groups, and doctors. All of them wanted the chemicals out of furniture. But the bill was killed in committee by a vote of seven to one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the lawmakers who voted on the bill had received campaign contributions from the chemical industry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leno says it's not hard to see those lobbying dollars in action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever one of his flame retardants bills would come up for a vote, he says, he’d pay a visit to each of the committee members, just before the vote, to make his case. But the lobbyists outnumbered him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repeatedly, as I would leave a colleague’s office, an hour or two before the committee hearing racing to get to another office, in the waiting room of the office I’m leaving is a lobbyist for the chemical industry. So they’d have the last word,” says Leno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n(Update: Read about how a Seattle burn doctor misled California lawmakers with the fictional story of an infant burn victim in the Chicago Tribune's four-part series, \"\u003ca href=\"http://media.apps.chicagotribune.com/flames/index.html\">Playing with Fire\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a state lawmaker, Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell, from Los Angeles, introduced -- and then quickly withdrew -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2197_bill_20120223_introduced.html\">her own bill\u003c/a> on the topic. A spokesperson said Mitchell decided she was too busy, but would pick it up next year. Since 2011, Mitchell has taken $3,500 from the chemical industry.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n(For more on how campaign dollars from the chemical industry have helped keep flame retardants in furniture, see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/author/lizagross/\">Liza Gross\u003c/a>' 2011 special report in Environmental Health News, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2011/money-to-burn\">Money to Burn\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to find supporters of TB 117 who aren’t in some way connected to the same companies that produce flame retardant chemicals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Lang is a former tobacco lobbyist with the firm Lang, Hansen, O'Malley & Miller, in Sacramento, whose clients include the American Chemistry Council, a chemical industry group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a hearing last April, Lang argued that changes to the California law are unnecessary because many of the most harmful flame retardants, a group called PBDEs, have already been banned. Newer alternatives, he said, are safer than the old ones. He said that over-regulating this industry would squelch innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we continue to ban chemicals that are developed before they're used, we won't have any chemicals to be used. We won't be able to create the jobs we want to create in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nDo flame retardants in furniture prevent fires?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lang and others in the industry say that flame retardant chemicals, and the law that requires them, TB 117, serve a critical purpose: They prevent fires. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald Lucas, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist, and his colleague Vyto Babrauskas researched exactly \u003ca href=\"http://abstracts.acs.org/chem/243nm/program/view.php\">this question\u003c/a>: Do flame retardant chemicals prevent fires? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our conclusions were that we really don’t need the flame retardants in the foam in home furnishing,\" said Lucas. We don’t think the TB 117 standard is very good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemicals don’t work, he says, because fires don’t start inside sofas. They start on the surface of the sofa, on the fabric. California's flammability law, TB 117 law says nothing about the fabric, just the foam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the fabric catches on fire, the flame that the foam is exposed to is much larger than the flame in the test,” says Lucas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, there’s nothing chemicals can do. It’s too late. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The foam is going to burn anyway.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there are far fewer fires today than there were in the 1970s, when TB 117 was written. Fewer smokers, as well as laws requiring smoke detectors and sprinklers have made homes safer. 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Winners from the first round used their own beans to brew in the finals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the brewing finalists’ \u003ca href=\"http://sprudge.com/sw-brewers-cup-methods-and-madness.html\">recipes show\u003c/a>, making the perfect cup of coffee is not as simple as adding hot water to ground coffee beans. The grind size, water temperature and brewing method can change the flavor. Coffee connoisseurs delight in controlling every detail. And even the corporate coffee giant Starbucks is experimenting with brewing. They’ve just opened a \u003ca href=\"http://www.psfk.com/2012/03/starbucks-worlds-first-coffee-laboratory-opens-in-amsterdam.html\">brewing “laboratory”\u003c/a> in Amsterdam. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We describe an ideal cup of coffee in terms of its strength, aroma, flavor, acidity, and finish. Coffee enthusiasts quantify those descriptions as the concentration of coffee compounds in the final brew and the amount of flavor extracted from the beans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33345\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/21/brewing-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee/peter-beans-better/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33345\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/peter-beans-better-270x360.jpg\" alt=\"Brewing coffee in SouthWest Regional Barista Championship\" title=\"peter beans better\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-33345\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter Molignano, of Fortnight Coffee Company in Los Angeles, competes in the Brewer's Cup of the South West Regional Barista Championship, Santa Cruz, CA, March 9, 2012. Image credit: Melissae Fellet\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are 2000 different flavor and aroma compounds in roasted coffee beans. Only a fraction of those flavors dissolve in hot water, and even fewer are palatable. A cup of coffee brewed to full extraction is bitter and undrinkable. So brewers aim to pull the sweet and complex flavors from the grinds before the beans leach their bitter compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reaching that extraction sweet spot depends on several factors, including the ratio of water to beans by weight. (Notice that all the winning recipes from the competition specify water and bean weight.) The size of coffee grounds and the brew time matter too. If your coffee is weak, grinding the beans finer increases the surface area of the grounds exposed to the hot water and thus increases the amount of flavors extracted. But watch the clock once the hot water hits the grounds. Brew any pot too long and those bitter flavors seep out from the beans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water temperature is another way to control the flavor of coffee. Water warmed to 195-205 degrees Fahrenheit is best, says Lalo Perez-Varona, an independent coffee researcher from San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coffee associations around the world recommend \u003ca href=\"http://vstapps.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Rao-Everything-cover-mockup4.pdf\"> numerical standards\u003c/a> that label the perfect cup of coffee in terms of the percentage of extracted flavors, but ultimately individual taste preferences determine excellence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a tasty cup of joe, pick beans with flavors that you like, use your favorite brewing method, and troubleshoot using this chart, changing one factor at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/21/brewing-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee/slide1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34343\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/Slide1.jpg\" alt=\"Factors influencing coffee flavor\" title=\"Slide1\" width=\"548\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34343\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/Slide1.jpg 548w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/Slide1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Melissae Fellet\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brewing method influences the flavor of the coffee too. 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You'd throw one in water, the capsule would dissolve, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zNo4rFVirA\" title=\"Magic Grow Time Lapse\">the foam would expand into a huge dinosaur or shark\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnH3EAES8_8&feature=related\" title=\"Blooming Tea Video\">Flowering tea\u003c/a> is the classy grown-up version of grow monsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/13/flower-blooms-in-your-tea-cup-its-water-absorption-as-entertainment/386221314_782/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33005\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/386221314_782-252x253.jpg\" alt=\"Grow Capsules\" title=\"386221314_782\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33005\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teas don't expand quite as much as the toys, so you might be able to guess they're using a different technology. 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When you add water to this dried biological bundle, it readily expands and uncurls according to the whim of the tea artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_33007\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 170px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/13/flower-blooms-in-your-tea-cup-its-water-absorption-as-entertainment/floweringtea_dragonlily_normal/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33007\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/FloweringTea_DragonLily_normal.png\" alt=\"Dragon Lily Flowering Tea\" title=\"FloweringTea_DragonLily_normal\" width=\"170\" height=\"160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33007\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Numi's Dragon Lily (which I drank while writing this post)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.numitea.com/pure-tea/health-benefits/#flowering-tea\" title=\"Numi Flowering Tea\">Numi\u003c/a> isn't the only place to get blooming tea--you can also find it at \u003ca href=\"http://www.redblossomtea.com/tea/blossoming.html\" title=\"Red Blossom - Blooming Tea\">Red Blossom Tea Company\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.peets.com/shop/tea_detail.asp?id=550&cid=2006\" title=\"Peet's - Blooming tea\">Peet's\u003c/a>, among others. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, San Franscisco hipsters are \u003ca href=\"http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/357955\" title=\"Chowhound - Blooming Tea\">keen to debate\u003c/a> whether it is truly hip or merely a \"gimmick.\" Apparently, no one is sure how long blooming tea has been around. 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Among the recipes was a favorite ink recipe of German soliders during World War I -- crushed aspirin mixed with water. Though the ink is easily available, uncovering it required a complicated chemical developer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other recipes in the CIA documents used solutions of iron, silver or copper salts as ink and developed the writing by heating the paper. This bit of history inspired my inner scientist and spy. Without access to chemicals in a lab, I experimented with invisible ink recipes using things I found around my house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Lemon juice and heat\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDip a cotton swab or thin paintbrush in lemon juice. Write your message on white paper and let it dry. Hold the paper over a lamp, radiator or candle (but don’t let it catch fire!). The heat breaks down the acid into light-brown compounds, revealing your message forever. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how my experiment turned out. 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Credit: Melissae Fellet\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Laundry detergent and black light\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhite shirts glow under black lights at a haunted house because the whitening agent in laundry detergent glows under ultraviolet light. Try writing your message using liquid laundry detergent. Holding the paper to a black light reveals a glowing message without damaging the paper. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if spies intercept a message written with one of these inks, it’s likely they could decode it. We all can find something to heat paper. And black lights, though less common than candles, are still widely available. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To solve this problem, I borrowed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanford.gov/c.cfm/oci/ci_spy.cfm?dossier=77\">trick from George Washington\u003c/a>: using two different chemicals to write and decode the message. Washington wrote with an watery ink containing iron salts. The receiver decoded the message by painting the paper with sodium carbonate, a chemical cousin of baking soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maintaining ink supplies was crucial during Washington's day. Now a trip to the grocery store will keep you well supplied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Baking soda and grape juice\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMake a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mrsec.psu.edu/ipse/activities/vision/vision3_invisible_ink.asp\">paste of baking soda in water\u003c/a>. Write your message with this paste on a piece of paper and let it dry. To decode the message, paint the paper with thawed grape juice concentrate. The acidic juice reacts with the basic baking soda and the purple grape juice turns gray. This worked best when I used plenty of baking soda paste and undiluted grape juice concentrate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_32030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/03/07/try-this-at-home-invisible-ink/quest-before-and-after/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32030\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/quest-before-and-after.png\" alt=\"Baking soda and grape juice invisible ink\" title=\"quest before and after\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32030\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/quest-before-and-after.png 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/03/quest-before-and-after-400x313.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Writing in baking soda and developing with grape juice. 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