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    How to Make Colored Fire

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 2 Comments

    Wood fires are yellow, right? Well, typically, but not necessarily. All hot bodies emit "black body" radiation in a color spectrum that depends on temperature: red for fairly hot, orange for hotter, yellow for really quite hot, all the way up through white for, well, white-hot. Most wood fires burn at about yellow-hot.

    3.15.2008 at 08:59pm - Comment by Project_Nightmare

    Now I know what to do with my etchant byproducts. I'll let it dry and throw it on a fire to see it burn pretty colors. (I use the HCl and H2O2 process and not the FeCl3)



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