Is green fire real?

Green is one of the easiest colors to turn fire, as it can be achieved with a number of fairly common chemicals. The addition of compounds like borax, boric acid, barium, and copper sulfate can all turn flames green.
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Does natural green fire exist?

Copper Sulfate Green Fire

If you have copper sulfate solution, soak logs or pinecones in the liquid and let them dry before igniting them. Sprinkle solid copper sulfate onto a fire to impart a green flame. Copper sulfate dissolves in rubbing alcohol and produces pure green fire.
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Is green fire hotter than blue fire?

While blue represents cooler colors to most, it is the opposite in fires, meaning they are the hottest flames. When all flame colors combine, the color is white-blue which is the hottest.
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Is the hottest fire green?

But, in fact, fire can span the entire spectrum of visible light and while most of us associate fire with yellows and reds, when we turn on a gas stove, the flame is blue with just a hint of orange. Violet is the hottest color fire. It can burn at around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius).
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Are green flames a thing?

A Note about Fuel

However, you will get green flames if you simply sprinkle copper sulfate on a wood fire or if you use a different fuel, except other chemicals in the fuel may add yellow, orange and red to the flame.
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This flame looks fake but is real (nitromethane)



Is there pink fire?

To make pink flames, sprinkle lithium chloride or a combination of strontium and potassium salts onto a fire. It's easy to make pink flames or pink fire if you apply a bit of chemistry. Here is a look at how pink flame work and suggested colorants that are readily available and non-toxic.
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Is there purple fire?

Purple flames come from metal salts, such as potassium and rubidium. It's easy to make purple fire using common household ingredients. Purple is unusual because it's not a color of the spectrum. Purple and magenta result from a mixture of blue light and red light.
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What is Cold fire?

Cold Fire™ is a unique agent that when applied breaks the chemical chain reaction of fire. Cold Fire™ works to encapsulate the fuel source and eliminate the heat of a fire. By encapsulating the fuel source, the vapors of the fuel can no longer be vaporized to cause re-ignition.
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Are white flames real?

When temperatures approach 2,400º F to 2,700º F, flames appear white. You can see these differences for yourself by observing a candle flame or a piece of burning wood. The part of the flame closest to the candle or the wood will usually be white, since the temperature is usually greatest near the fuel source.
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What is the coldest fire color?

The colder part of a diffusion (incomplete combustion) flame will be red, transitioning to orange, yellow, and white as the temperature increases as evidenced by changes in the black-body radiation spectrum. For a given flame's region, the closer to white on this scale, the hotter that section of the flame is.
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What color is the strongest fire?

Although red usually means hot or danger, in fires it indicates cooler temperatures. While blue represents cooler colors to most, it is the opposite in fires, meaning they are the hottest flames. When all flame colors combine, the color is white-blue which is the hottest.
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What is the coldest fire?

The lowest recorded cool flame temperatures are between 200 and 300°C; the Wikipedia page references n-butyl acetate as 225°C.
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What is the hottest fire in the universe?

A CERN experiment at the Large Hadron Collider created the highest recorded temperature ever when it reached 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.
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How hot is white fire?

The color of a fire is a rough gauge of how hot it is. Deep red fire is about 600-800° Celsius (1112-1800° Fahrenheit), orange-yellow is around 1100° Celsius (2012° Fahrenheit), and a white flame is hotter still, ranging from 1300-1500 Celsius (2400-2700° Fahrenheit).
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What causes purple fire?

Potassium salts produce a characteristic purple or violet color in a flame. Assuming your burner flame is blue, it may be difficult to see a big color change. Also, the color may be paler than you expect (more lilac).
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What are blue flames?

Blue Flame Means Complete Combustion

With complete combustion, an LPG (Propane) flame burns at a temperature of around 1,980°C. For Natural Gas (Methane), the temperature is about 1,960°C, according to the flame color temperature chart.
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Is blue fire real?

"Blue lava" is an electric-blue fire that burns when sulfur combusts, producing a neon-blue flame. Sulfur burns when it comes into contact with hot air at temperatures above 360 °C (680 °F), which produces the energetic flames. Actual lava is red-orange in color, given its temperature.
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Is purple fire hotter than blue fire?

This energy is then felt in the form of temperature, or heat. Thus the colors of light with the highest frequency will have the hottest temperature. From the visible spectrum, we know violet would glow the hottest, and blue glows less hot.
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What can fire not burn?

Wherever any substance is put in fire it burns and changes into ash. But asbestos is one such material that does not burn in fire. That is why the fireman wear clothes made from asbestos when they enter the burning house. In fact their clothes, shoes, gloves, helmets etc.
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What element is coldfire?

Cool flame can occur in hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, oils, acids, waxes, and even methane. The lowest temperature of a cool flame is poorly defined and is conventionally set as temperature at which the flame can be detected by eye in a dark room (cool flames are hardly visible in daylight).
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Is white fire the hottest?

The hottest part of the flame is the base, so this typically burns with a different colour to the outer edges or the rest of the flame body. Blue flames are the hottest, followed by white. After that, yellow, orange and red are the common colours you'll see in most fires.
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What makes pink fire?

Copper chloride: Makes a blue flame. Lithium chloride: Makes a pink flame.
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Is blue fire hotter or colder?

However, there are cases that follow the simple pattern you ask about, where the flame color changes smoothly from yellowish to bluish as it gets hotter. Simple burners fueled by oxygen and propane typically behave this way.
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