Different types of chemical flames.

non-expert comments from someone who played with pyro as a kid, many moons ago:

  • the KCl should be pale violet but it appears overwhelmed by something orange (like glowing carbon from alcohol, or residual sodium?)

  • What should Pb be doing?

  • The Ba is not nearly as green as the mixes I made as a kid. Probably need an oxidizer to burn hotter.

  • The Cu needs a chlorine donor to get it nice and blue - very hard to do. Blue is an art form.

  • The Boron is a nice green. Apparently Boron is the new , cleaner Barium

  • Can't suppress Na yellow no matter what. That will mess up anything else in small concentrations.

  • The Strontium might be suffering from low temperatures or contamination, like the Ba - I recall a much richer magenta-red.

  • nice brick red from the Li - never managed to get that one as a kid - probably works at a lower temperature than the ones that failed (Ba, Sr, Cu) so you don't need a hot flame with an oxidizer.

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