Re: [TCML] Updates for the DC Mem. Teslathon

["Teslalabor" <teslalabor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here you can see a big bright-red strontium flame in a high frequency VTTC 
(20MHz) I built:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuBQCIipsW0

I used Strontiumnitrate.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek, Extreme Electronics" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Updates for the DC Mem. Teslathon


> Strontium is probably a better (safer?) one than lithium, certainly much 
> easier to get hold of in the UK anyway.
>
> Derek
>
> On 25/08/2013 19:23, Peter Terren wrote:
> > Ethanol doesn't work.
> > Tried it a week ago by chance.
> > Methanol is harder to get and is toxic.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "Scott Bogard" <sdbogard@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:10 AM
> > > I haven't seen the cannon but Boric acid and ethanol/methanol makes 
> > > green
> > > flame.  As an aside, lithium chloride makes a brilliant red if you want 
> > > to
> > > experiment...  You can also try simple potassium compounds for purple 
> > > but
> > > they are a much less pronounced effect...
> > >
> > > Scott Bogard.
> >
> >
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