>> Most recently on a B-day, friends purchased for me candles at the
>> Exploratorium which have the interesting non-yellow salts for red,
>> orange, and green flames. Not bad.
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>as a kid I was making candles in my parents's kitchen, dropped a whole
>pot with molten wax on the floor and got grounded for a week.
Back to the Future springs to brain...
>I suppose you can create a green flame by adding some copper salt into
>the wax.
Oh yes, maybe sme slight inhalation hazard. I remember the CuSO4
warning labels in the era when you could have that in a chem set.
>Manganese - purple?
I don't remember, It's have to look that up.
I liked Li for the red, crimson. And not that I had any interest in
going to Harvard.
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