Learn how to make pink flames using common, readily available chemicals. Turn your fire pink for Valentine's day or any time!
Fire and Flames Projects
Colored fire spray bottles demonstration the principles of the flame test and emission spectra. Here is how to make and use them safely.
Colored Fire Spray Bottles
Learn how to make red flames or a red fire using readily available chemicals. See which colors the metal salts produce.
How to Make Red Flames (Red Fire)
Learn how to make blue fire. Choose colorants that turn flames blue and fuels that either burn blue or don't mask the color.
How to Make Blue Fire
Use colored fire pinecones to give any fire colored flames. All you need is a pinecone and one simple household ingredient.
How to Make Colored Fire Pinecones
It's easy to make yellow fire using table salt, which contains sodium, or by adding iron filings.
How to Make Golden and Yellow Fire
Find out why fire is hot, learn how hot it is, and see the temperatures of various colors of flames from different types of fuels.
Why Is Fire Hot? How Hot Is It?
Purple fire comes from metal ions, such as potassium.
How to Make Purple Fire
2 You can make fire burn with a pure white flame. White is an elusive fire color because the fuel that supports a flame burns with its own characteristic spectrum. But, with a little chemistry know-how, you can get white fire. Here’s how to do it, along with tips to make […]