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How do you turn fire blue?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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13y ago

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many different chemicals make certain colored fires... heres a list. dark red = lithium chloride

red = strontium chloride (found in emergency flares)

orange = calcium chloride (a bleaching powder)

yellow = sodium chloride (table salt) or sodium carbonate

yellowish green = borax (sodium borate, a common insecticide and cleaning agent)

green = copper sulfate (found in some pool and aquarium chemicals)

blue = copper chloride (lab chemical, but other copper compounds found in algicides and fungicides may work)

violet = 3 parts potassium sulfate, 1 part potassium nitrate (saltpeter)

purple = potassium chloride (sometimes sold as a 'lite' salt)

white = magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts)

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12y ago

Depends, my friend. Different things burn different fires. For example, you know when trees or wood catch on fire, and the flame is usually orange? Well, when different materials burn, like boulders, you will need a green flame, because if you try to light it orange, that's why the flame will go out quickly, because it isn't strong enough. So, in order to get blue fire, you need to probably light metal, or hand sanitizer.

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9y ago

There can be a few explanations. In most cases, however, a blue flame indicates complete combustion. In an ordinary flame the yellow glow is due to the incandescence of partially burned soot particles. With complete combustion there is no soot, and no incandescence. The blue glow comes from electrons in the gas molecules becoming excited. Because of this more efficieant combustion, a blue flame is typically hotter than a yellow flame. Hydrogen often burns with a dim blue flame as well. Additionally, some metal ions emit blue light in a flame.

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15y ago

Burning a hydrocarbon with a balanced amount of oxygen.

The flame is blue because of how hot it is with the tip of the cone being the hottest part.

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11y ago

Take sanitizer put in a pot, go to a safe place to burn it then light it on fire.

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14y ago

make the fire hotter

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