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How to change the color of the
flame on a campfire (or almost
any other fire) to red, orange,
yellow, green, turquoise, purple,
or white.
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Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
one of several chemicals listed below
a fire
possibly some protective equipment
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The most important and first step is read all the warnings for this article. If
you don't, very bad things could happen.
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Now determine what color you want to
change the flame to. The options are red,
orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue,
purple, and bright white.
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Now you need to get some of the material
required to give you your desired color. Do note
ahead of time that all of these materials are
available on ebay or from specialized online
retailers. You can search ebay or google
A Barium Chlorate enhanced fire products to find someone that sells them. None
of them are terribly expensive. But if there's an
easier way to get some, I'll mention it below. Here's the breakdown by color:
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Green: Barium salts such as Barium nitrate or Barium chlorate. Chlorate works
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White: Magnesium Sulfate. It's found in epsom salts but I haven't gotten it to react
very well myself. I've heard plain old magnesium filings works so well, the
intensity can damage your eyes so you might want to try that
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Build a campfire and let it burn until there is a decent bed of red embers
present. Let the flames die down a little but there should still be some
visible. Usually about 1 foot flames with brightly glowing red embers is
about right.
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Carefully add your chosen material directly onto the embers. Add only a
small amount at first to test and make sure no unexpected chemical
reactions like an explosion occurs. Keep adding more until you see a
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noticeable change. It may take up to a minute for the effect on the flame to be
visible.
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Tips & Warnings
The pure forms of each metal compund may produce a small colored effect
if added directly. For instance magnesium and copper shavings may
produce a slight white or green glow respectively
for the absolute best effect, instead of using a campfire, use a homemade
smoke bomb made out of powdered sugar and potassium nitrate with the
chosen material mixed in. That will produce a very strong, colored flame.
Read my other article on building smoke bombs if you want to try it that
way
Most of the metal compounds used for any color are extremely toxic is
breathed, eaten, or absorbed through the skin. Wear gloves, eye, and
breathing protections when using.
Any smoke or fumes created from the fire after adding the material is
added may potentially be extremely toxic.
The ashes left after the fire behind may contain toxic metal residue
Some of these materials may cause the fire to flare up so add carefuly and
from as far away as possible
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L1onherd said
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on 6/20/2008 I tried this during our scout camping trip! The boy's loved it!
Thanks for the tips
showpup said
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on 5/29/2008 FUN!!! I've seen many, if not all these materials for sale on
sites catering to homeschoolers for science experiments so that's another
spot to check. 5 stars
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