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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Citizen Chemist => Topic started by: Cake on May 06, 2022, 07:29:32 AM

Title: Anything worth knowing about burning potassium chloride?
Post by: Cake on May 06, 2022, 07:29:32 AM
Sooo, the summer is coming along and some of my colleagues have decided to have a grill/bonfire party when the weather is good. We all agreed on bringing some interesting things to not die of boredom and i've started looking into changing the colour of the bonfire to purple with KCl. Is there anything worth knowing about it? Probably gonna buy 1kg of the substance.
Title: Re: Anything worth knowing about burning potassium chloride?
Post by: Hunter2 on May 06, 2022, 05:03:45 PM
I think you will not see much. If you burn the fire with charcoal or wood it will be still yellow because to much sodium in the wood. Or everybody has to wear blue cobalt glasses.
If you don't get to much KCl to your food what you grill then its no problem.
Title: Re: Anything worth knowing about burning potassium chloride?
Post by: RisingEastStar17 on August 13, 2022, 03:47:36 AM
Don't you mean potassium chlorate (KOCl)? Because KCl is just a salt substitute.