How to make Colored Fire...

Well we can’t get green color flame if we throw green color paper into fire. There is some science behind the colored fire. I have tried to put it in the simplest way possible procedure to produce colored fire in safe and easy way.

It is actually the different chemicals used which produce the different color. Below listed are some of the chemicals and the colors which they produce when burnt.

• Blue  - Cupric chloride
• Red  -  Lithium chloride
• Red   - Strontium chloride
• Green -  Cupric sulfate
• Orange -  Borax (Sodium borate)
• Orange  - Calcium chloride
• Purple -  Potassium chloride
• Yellow  - Sodium chloride
• Yellow  - Sodium carbonate
• Blue   - Cupric chloride
• Red   - Lithium chloride
• Red   - Strontium chloride
• Green  -  Copper sulfate
• Orange  -  Sodium borate
• Orange  - Calcium chloride
• Purple   - Potassium chloride
• Yellow   - Sodium chloride
• Yellow   - Sodium carbonate
• White sparks  - Magnesium ribbon
• Yellow sparks  -  Iron filings

How to do it: Take a plastic container and add a gallon of water. To this add roughly around 400 grams of any of the above chemical and mix it well to form  a solution (most of the above salts are water soluble). Now take your dried material (wood logs, wood chips or any other fire source , preferably wood) and soak it in the above prepared chemical solution for one day. Now take the soaked material and dry it until all the water has dried up. By now the chemical must have been absorbed onto the fire source very well. Now just burn the wooden logs like how you do with your normal wooden logs and enjoy a cool color fireplace. Use multiple colored soaked logs for multiple fire colors. Make sure to use proper safety equipment will preparing these.

Note: You can proportionately add the chemical to water. i.e. you can add even 200 grams to half gallon of water also.