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  2. Colored fire - Wikipedia

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    Flame coloring is also a good way to demonstrate how fire changes when subjected to heat and how they also change the matter around them. [1] [2] To color their flames, pyrotechnicians will generally use metal salts. Specific combinations of fuels and co-solvents are required in order to dissolve the necessary chemicals.

  3. Flame test - Wikipedia

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    A flame test involves introducing a sample of the element or compound to a hot, non-luminous flame and observing the color of the flame that results. [4] The compound can be made into a paste with concentrated hydrochloric acid, as metal halides, being volatile, give better results. [5] Different flames can be tried to verify the accuracy of ...

  4. Fire art - Wikipedia

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    Dragon's breath (sustained vertical breath without a torch in front of the flame) Fire art is a piece of art that uses active flames as an essential part of the piece. The piece may either use flame effects as part of a sculpture, or be a choreographed performance of fire effects as the piece burns; the latter being almost a type of performance art.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The deity Acala (known as Fudō Myōō in Japan) is depicted in Buddhist art holding a sword which may or may not be flaming and sometimes described only generically as a treasure sword (宝剣, hōken) or as a vajra-sword (金剛剣, kongō-ken), as the pommel of the sword is shaped like a talon-like vajra (金剛杵, kongō-sho).

  7. Fractal flame - Wikipedia

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    A fractal flame created by the Electric Sheep computing project. Fractal flame created in Apophysis. Fractal flames are a member of the iterated function system class [1] of fractals created by Scott Draves in 1992. [2] Draves' open-source code was later ported into Adobe After Effects graphics software [3] and translated into the Apophysis ...

  8. Fire - Wikipedia

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    Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. [1] [a] Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion reaction when the fuel reaches its ignition point.

  9. Nihonga - Wikipedia

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    Enbu (炎舞, Dancing in the Flames) by Gyoshū Hayami, 1925, Important Cultural Property. Yamatane Museum.. Nihonga (Japanese: 日本画) is a Japanese style of painting that uses mineral pigments, and occasionally ink, together with other organic pigments on silk or paper.