Re: glowing letters special effect?

From: Gregory Poon (mk.poon_at_utoronto.ca)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:50:14 GMT

Conceivably, ink containing filings of a reactive metal, such as magnesium,
could do that. Is it really safe though?

"lawpoop" <lawpoop@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:b410bc33.0411291602.127bee84@posting.google.com...
> Few years ago a friend of mine had a metallic ink pen, and if you
> burnt paper with writing on it, the letters would birghtly glow
> briefly before burning out.
>
> I bought out the metallic pen section at staples and none of them do
> this (even actual metallic paint pens).
>
> Does anyone know how I could make glowing letter ink? All it has to do
> is glow briefly when the flame hits it. Would carbon do this for me?

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