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workshop today we’re gonna be doing some
fun experiments with fire and
specifically we’re gonna see if we can
create a nice rainbow effect using
different types of chemicals mixed in
with our flames we’ve got a couple
different sources of fuel and a whole
lot of different chemicals that we can
try mixing into our flames let’s see
which ones give us the best result we
have two different versions of this heat
product which are designed to help clean
your engine we’ve got some 91% isopropyl
alcohol and some 70% isopropyl alcohol
and we’ll see what color each of these
burns on its own and what we want to try
and use as our fuel source these little
pieces of aluminum were just some tea
light candles that I popped the candle
well we have a very bright yellowish
orange color we have a slightly more
subdued yellowish orange color a very
pale yellow orange color and one that in
this amount of light you can barely see
but it mostly looks blue it’s almost
invisible
let’s try turning off the lights and see
how things look our blue flame is a
little bit more visible it’s still
pretty clear there’s not a lot showing
up in there but it’s not bad I think
that the yellow heat gave us the best
result for something that we’ll be able
to use to change the color because it
had very little bright color of its own
so let’s run our chemical experiments
using this let’s try going in order the
first color we want to try and get is a
nice red I’ve heard that the best thing
for that is to get some lithium out of a
lithium battery and then dissolve that
in this liquid the lithium in our
battery should create a compound which
will burn with a very bright red almost
magenta color ooh
it certainly reacts quickly that seems
mostly reacted let’s see what happens if
we ignite this will we get a red flame
like we are theoretically supposed to
whoa yeah we do
pretty good red right there like that is
on red
almost almost magenta colored flame I am
liking that cool cool cool we’ve got red
put that out set that aside and let’s
see if we can get an orange now for
orange my research has said that calcium
chloride can give you a good orange
colored flame and an easy source of
calcium chloride is some types of
sidewalk salt that’s meant for melting
ice and snow and the stuff that I got is
shaped into these little prills these
small little beads I’m not sure if it
being in the bead form is better or the
powdered form is better so we’ll try
grinding it up into a powder and then
we’ll see if that gives us a better or
worse effect than the little beads
all right we’ll do a side-by-side
comparison glad a little bit more of
methanol to the prills
and also add some into the powder have
turned orange much faster although this
is a pretty good orange color as well I
don’t know I think we’re kind of getting
more off of the powder
Hank either one works really you just
need enough of the fuel to kind of cover
the frills or the powder and then you
get a good orange color my research says
that the best way to get a yellow flame
is by burning something with sodium in
it baking soda or sodium bicarbonate or
sodium chloride table salt we’re gonna
try both of these in the methanol and
we’re gonna compare that to the bright
yellow we are getting as we burn the red
heat we’ll see which one gives us the
best yellow color here goes looking for
yellow flame the red heat immediately
gives us yellow flame our table salt or
I guess this is sea salt but it’s the
same stuff just in a slightly different
shape that’s a kind of yellow flame a
little bit more orange than this our
baking soda is taking longer to get
going but we’re now starting to get a
visible flame on that again that’s kind
of orange in my opinion there’s a pretty
clear winner here the two different
versions of the sodium are giving us a
yellowish flame and that’s pretty good
and in fact I actually kind of like the
color of the baking sort of the best but
there’s just so much good yellow coming
off of the red heat fuel I think we
might have to go with that one moving on
to green every resource I could find
recommended the same thing boric acid
which is usually found as an ant and
Roach killing powder let’s just try
putting that in adding some ethanol and
see what color burns ooh that is
immediately green like no warm-up time
with a blue flame or an orange flame
that went straight to green no wonder
everyone recommends this stuff it’s
pretty conclusive that’s green it looks
like something straight out of a Harry
Potter next up is blue and as we saw the
methanol by itself actually burns a
fairly blue color but it’s not very
intense
so I’m wondering if there’s anything we
can add to try and get that blue to show
up a little bit more something online
suggested that we can use the copper
sulfate crystals in this root pill and
that that could bring out some of the
color so we’re gonna try that saw a
little flash of green as I lift the one
with powder in it pretty much the same
effect as the crystallized form it looks
mostly blue with little bits of green
here and there in it might have a little
bit less yellow streaking which is
something we’re also seeing in our
crystallized one all right all right
that’s that’s a almost a turquoise color
so we’ll keep that in mind the last
color that we want to make is violet and
from what I’ve seen the best way to get
that color is from burning potassium
chloride potassium chloride is most
easily found in sodium free salt
substitute now although this does
contain potassium chloride it does have
some other chemicals in it as well so it
may not be a very pure source there’s
already a pretty fine powder so I really
don’t know how much this is gonna change
hmm that was a nice little burst of
purple at first it’s like purple mixed
with orange which isn’t really a color I
think about mixing much but it looks
like but I think there’s more purple
visible in it as well maybe a not so
much purple as lavender orange up top
lavender down at the bottom maybe this
little contraption that Nighthawk and I
came up with with it’s just a
wastebasket set on top of like a lazy
susan spinner I actually glued it in
place just so that the wastebasket
wouldn’t slide off if some of the weight
got shifted a really good result so now
I want to see if we can combine three
different colors and get a multicolored
sort of flame going through the air so
I’m gonna try the red and the green
because those are both really vibrant
and then I think I’ll try using some of
the alcohol as a yellow fuel and see if
we can get red green and yellow all
it’s one heck of a thing all right let’s
put this out we’ve made a multi-coloured
fire vortex we’ve made several different
colors let’s line all of the different
variations up and see if we can get that
whole rainbow look that we’re looking
for it’s just a couple of seconds to
start warming up to their colors I’m
already liking what I’m seeing we have
lithium dissolved in the methyl alcohol
we then have our calcium chloride for
the yellow color I’m going with the red
heat for the green of course we have the
boric acid we’ve got the copper sulfate
ground up into a powder as sort of an
in-between the green and the blue for
the blue alone we’re going for the
methanol by itself with nothing else in
it and for the purple we’re trying the
ground-up non sodium salt that’s a good
rainbow if you ask me take some
refueling to get everything to stay nice
and lit and show the colors really well
but I love how it looks hey guys quick
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