Re: color flame questions

Sure, but it sounds like you'd rather have water soluble compounds. Pyro
tends to avoid these because of moisture content, but you might find it
more convienient. For example, copper chloride is water soluble, instead
of copper oxide and parlon or other chlorine donor which is not. Likewise
for green, barium chloride is soluble, and boric acid mildly so (an alcohol
solution would do just as well).

Tim

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"shockie" <shockwaveriderz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ok I'm aware that there are certain color chemicals that are water
soluble therefore I can use these to soak wood products and hence get
color flames.

What I'm unclear about is using non-water soluble color chemicals for
the same purpose, that require a chlorine donor and a solvent to make
a solution.

For example some color chemical are only soluble with methyl alcohol
or acetone, both highly flammable substances. But these solvents are
required if I want to use cholrine donors such as parlon, saran,
chlorowax,etc.

So can non-water soluble color chemicals/cholrine donors/solvent
solutions be used to soak wood chips etc for color flames like the
water soluable ones?

Obviously these would be allowed to dry out way before use.

I know this may be a simple question (or perhaps even dumb) to you
more experienced pyro's but I couldn't really fine a definitive
answer by googling rec.pyro

thanks

terry dean


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