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  2. Blue lava - Wikipedia

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    "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. [2] Actual lava is red-orange in color, given its temperature.

  3. Colored fire - Wikipedia

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    A campfire burning with blue and green flame colorants Different colors of natural flame from a bunsen burner, without additives. Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic effect used in stage productions, fireworks and by fire performers the world over.

  4. Flame - Wikipedia

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    The transitions are often apparent in fires, in which the color emitted closest to the fuel is white, with an orange section above it, and reddish flames the highest of all. [7] A blue-colored flame only emerges when the amount of soot decreases and the blue emissions from excited molecular radicals become dominant, though the blue can often be ...

  5. Pyrotechnic colorant - Wikipedia

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    The red lithium flame leads to lithium's use in flares and pyrotechnics Copper compounds glow green or blue-green in a flame. Calcium compounds glow orange in a flame. Sodium compounds glow yellow in a flame. A pyrotechnic colorant is a chemical compound which causes a flame to burn with a particular color.

  6. Oxidizing and reducing flames - Wikipedia

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    Reducing, neutral and oxidizing oxyacetylene flames. A flame is affected by the fuel introduced and the oxygen available. A flame with a balanced oxygen-fuel ratio is called a neutral flame. The color of a neutral flame is semi-transparent purple or blue. [1] This flame is optimal for many uses because it does not oxidize or deposit soot onto ...

  7. Bunsen burner - Wikipedia

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    The yellow flame is considered "dirty" because it leaves a layer of carbon on whatever it is heating. When the burner is regulated to produce a hot, blue flame, it can be nearly invisible against some backgrounds. The hottest part of the flame is the tip of the inner flame, while the coolest is the whole inner flame.

  8. Luminous flame - Wikipedia

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    One of the most familiar instances of a luminous flame is produced by a Bunsen burner. This burner has a controllable air supply and a constant gas jet: when the air supply is reduced, a highly luminous, and thus visible, orange 'safety flame' is produced. For heating work, the air inlet is opened and the burner produces a much hotter blue flame.

  9. St. Elmo's fire - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire [1]) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.