Last weekend I was using an 8R with a BD cap at the beach. The cap fell into the sand and I rinsed the sand off in the surf while I was cleaning the cooking pot. This weekend when the stove was fired up it had the most beautiful green flame for a few minutes. There must have been a slight amount of corrosion on the cap from the salt water.
Interesting, I know that regular table salt (sodium chloride) shows up orange'ish yellow in fire, potassium chloride is purple and green's usually saved for boric acid or copper sulfate, aha, is the cap copper? You can make all sorts of neat colors with fire; heheheh fire's cool. Dang it, this reminds me, I'm campin next week; gotta make up some fun logs to throw on the fire so we have some campfire aurora borealis...
Wish could have seen pictures of that. It would have been cool. But instead of corision probably what happened is that the stove was burning off the salts from the seawater. Copper and Boric Acid are two that I know that produce a green flame in fire. but not sure what others would cause this and if it would be a combination of the normal blue flame to produce green. Sea water doesn't have much if any Copper or Boron. But it is plausable that the color from the Sodium and Sulfur was enough to turn the flame a nice shade of green for awhile? Hope that helps some. Frank Clark
I went to a fireworks display with a friend of mine some years ago, he's a chemist. He got really boring The yellow comes from blah blah The green comes from blah blah The red comes from blah blah Flamin' David will be along in a minute with a full list
