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Can you get calcium acetate OTC? I google it and came up with nothing but kidney drug stuff. Or is it an order only chem?
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Calcium acetate can me made home very cheaply and easy. Just dissolve calcium carbonate in acetic acid and boil it until dry. This yields reasonably pure calcium acetate. Calcium carbonate can be found in some kinds of plaster, limestone and the things you write with on school boards (crayons?).

 

Otherwise you will have to buy it as a chemical, which usually isn't very expensive.

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hmm... boiling vinegar...sounds fun, almost like boiling bleach.
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If anyone has copper sulfate, I've found it usable with methanol to get green flames. I really want to build a steel mortar soon so I can make some colored fireballs.
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Good evening.

I has made a shot of methanol burning with lithium nitrate.

The focus is not good,but you can see the pink colors of Lithium.

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/92/rougeliio7.jpg

Bye

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so if you mix that you get like a liquid... how do you put that in a cardboard piece for a rocket, plz help :mellow:
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Its not any kind of propellant, If you read what the threat title was you find that is burning methanol.
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Jointluver, I'm done making suggestions. Now I'm TELLING you.

 

Read the rules, read the existing threads, and learn from them.

 

You're asking to be spoon-fed. Do your homework, THEN ask questions.

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FD

 

The pic looks pretty cool! You just drove me a little further to check out this venture! Man I hate it when I get another Idea in my head!

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Today, i take a shot of methanol who's burning alone,without any chemical. It give a nice blue.

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I did on methanol:

 

Н3ВО3 + H2SO4 (catalyst)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55xJz60vEx8

 

CuCl2 + CH2Cl2

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwSfOsyOzCo

 

LiBr + HBr (catalyst)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfkNwJeFHuA

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I've tried methanol, ethanol, and acetone, but the best colors seem to come from methanol. I use gas-line antifreeze (yellow container not red) which I assume is pure methanol?

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Not quite. There are a few additives and stuff, but nothing that seems to affect the color too much. You can also get methanol as a racing fuel in some locations.

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