Re: Any Good Ethanol Soluble Pigments?

bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
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Yes, you will be wanting "salts". Look up the definition of the
term.

Not "salt," "polar solvent." :p

Ethanol doesn't work very well, try using methanol instead.
It dissolves the chemicals you will want to use better, and has
less yellow in the flame to detract from the colors you're trying to
produce. Remember that the fumes are toxic.

For a cheap and easy start, get some boric acid at the drugstore or
hardware store and add it to methanol type gas line additive such as
"Heet".

I've noticed that automotive fluids are notoriously bad about printing
their ingredients on the labels. Are most brands of automotive "dry gas"
methanol, or do they often throw other adulterants in there?

That will give you a nice green flame. Boric acid is used as
a roach killer, it should be available cheap and finely powdered.

Thank you very much. :) If methanol will dissolve something as ionic as
boric acid, copper sulfate will also dissolve, won't it?
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