Hot foil trick Hot foil trick The hot foil trick is a magic trick in which the magician places a small piece of tin or aluminium foil in a volunteer's hand, and the foil begins to rapidly increase in temperature until the volunteer has to drop it to avoid scalding their hand, and the foil is reduced to ashes on the ground. This effect is achieved by, shortly before performing the trick, surreptitiously exposing the foil to a chemical (such as mercury(II) chloride ) which will cause it to rapidly oxidise. This trick can be very dangerous, since many of the chemicals used
Tin Tin Daily News Tin Tin Daily News Tin Tin Daily News also known as Tin Tin Yat Pao was a newspaper in Hong Kong, published between 1960 and 2000. In later years it took a pro-Beijing editorial stand. It was founded by the Wai Kee-shun family, who made their fortune in pharmaceutical industry and was the first colour-printed newspaper in Hong Kong. The newspaper was published by Tin Tin Publication Development Limited and was printed by sister company Tin Tin Colour Printing Company Limited. However, the publishing rights was owned by Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) Limited, which was majority owned by bank.