Re: salts and arcs

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Steve:  Any book on pyotechnics can give you a list of salts that will
produce different colors. IE. strontiun gives a bright red ,get some slag
from a road flare uesd at an auto accident. Copper gives blue. The only
requiremqnt is it must volitize in your arc. most water soluble salts should
work well.
  Robert  H

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> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 17:28:33 -0600
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> Subject: salts and arcs
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> Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
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> Today i put a small blob of wet table salt on top of my small VTTC (which is
> looking ok lately).  The arcs were awesome looking!  Very bright orange and
> a tad longer than usual.  The base was totally orange, and there was specs
> of orange throughout the rest of the short 3.5 " arc.  I wonder how this
> would look on my big coil throwing 2.5 foot orange arcs.  The display is
> really brilliant!  Everyone ouht to try it if they can control thier coil to
> a 6" arc, or if not watch the lightning from afar( i reccomend small because
> then you can touch it and such).  I remember seeing this before on the
> internet but i didnt realise how amazing it really is!  Now go out and do
> it!!
> 
> Anyone have any other common chemicals that they know of that do this type
> of thing?  I want to try some mixtures of different things.  Its kinda like
> fireworks for the TC.  Have fun and try this.
> 
> Steve Ward
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