Eugene Miya wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> In article
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> runcyclexcski@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
Potassium permanganate perhaps for purple perhaps?
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