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Fire! by Olive Hollis

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Fire is awesome. That’s all there is to it. What could be better than fire? Nothing that’s what. You can do a lot of things with fire. Heck without fire humans would probably be dead by now. We preserve food with it and we keep warm and not die. 

Anyway you can do a bunch of really cool things with fire. Like when you add Borax to fire it will turn into a light green color.

 And supposedly sanitizer will make a light blue flame.

 But just because these things are in this article does not mean that you can do this all willy nilly. Fire can be dangerous and adding things to it can be even more dangerous. This is how explosions happen btw. So anyway… Fire is super awesome. 

  • Copper sulfate makes fire green

  • Cupric chloride makes fire blue

  • Lithium chloride makes fire pink

  • Barium sulfate makes fire a yellow-ish green color

  • Potassium makes fire purple

    Hold on. So does that mean when you throw a banana into a fire it will turn purple?! I hope so. I’m going to try that out when I get home. And I looked up all these on google and got a variety of answers so I went with the most common one I got. And you have to put a certain amount of these things into the fire but I left that out cause I don’t know what will happen when you add these to fire other than change the color. Oh well.

And lastly magnesium makes fire white.

HOLD UP!!!! I did more digging on the internet and saw that you can make black fire? How come no one has ever told me this!?!? Okay okay so I’m getting that you need a sodium street light and add fire it turns black?!?!!?!?!? Okay so when I get home I need to burn bananas and some sodium and make this fire. I hope this was hopeful in some way or another. And remember that you should make sure that it’s safe to do 

all these things with fire because it’s dangerous as is. 


BE CAREFUL AND DON’T MESS WITH FIRE WITHOUT PROPER PROTECTION!