The detonation should be pink. Briefly.
On 2019-07-04 10:33 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
On 07/04/2019 11:35 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, George Herbert wrote:Hmmm, I wonder if it burns pink?
Oooh, this is a good fuel.?? Very good. So wow.?? Preparation involves
mercury, end result terrifically pyrophoric...
https://twitter.com/ndchiappini/status/1145494807248113664?s=21
And yes, Derek Lowe (of "Things I Won't Work With") has already been alerted!
Henry
A friend of mine used to make really pretty whistle rockets using Lithium Terepthalate as the fuel, which he prepared from
?? soft-drink bottles, battery-grade Li carbonate, and a process he never described to me.
Glorious pink plume....
