Salt Nitrate colours - Archive File

[Anthony]

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posted January 07, 2001 09:49 PM
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I'm not sure what salt nitrates makes which coulers


Big Bang
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posted January 08, 2001 04:55 AM
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Can someone please help me cause i know that potassium nitrate is just the basic explosion but botassium nitrate makes a diffrent color and they are both salt based nitrates and there are others that make different colors.


Anthony
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posted January 08, 2001 05:09 AM
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There's allready a couple of threads on this.


Agent Blak
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posted January 08, 2001 08:54 AM
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Botassium Nitrate?
What is the Emperical formula for that?

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Rhadon
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posted January 08, 2001 10:44 AM
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I don't think that "botassium nitrate" does exist. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Merck Index doesn't know this compound...


J
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posted January 08, 2001 02:25 PM
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It doesn't exist, it was probably a typo. Either that, or he was thinking of Barium Nitrate, which will produce a green colour when mixed with suitable fuels. Off the top of my head, Potassium salts will produce a purple/white colour, Strontium salts will produce red, Sodium yellow. As for blue, copper salts used as fuels will accomplish this.
J


Big Bang
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posted January 27, 2001 10:38 PM
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thanks J i wasn't sure weather that was right i just heard somthing like that somewhere.


blackadder
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posted January 28, 2001 03:57 PM
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barium nitrate = green
strontium nitrate = red
Iron filings (sp?) = white/gold sparks
Titanium filings = blue
Sodium salts = yellow
copper sulphate = green/blue/not sure
go to skylighter and pyrotek, they tell you what colour is what, and so on.


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posted January 28, 2001 07:11 PM
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strontium carbonate burns red also
magnesium and aluminum burn blindingly white
copper nitrate burns blue and sometimes blue green.

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PHILOU Zrealone
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posted February 02, 2001 07:42 AM
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LiNO3 burns red, Ca(NO3)2 burns orange-pink
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