Re: fire from water.
From: Tracy Hall (uce.dump_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: 18 Jan 2005 14:41:53 -0800
On Dec 30 2004 6:01 PM Bill (Repeating Rifle) wrote:
>> Subject: Re: fire from water.
>> on 12/30/04 10:54 AM Neil Lawrence wrote:
>> At a recent outing with a youth group (I am an adult advisor)
>> one of the other advisors started a fire by pouring water on
>> the camp fire. I know he had done something previously to
>> prepare the effect, however he won't share his secret.
[snip]
> When I was a kid, a counselor in camp did something like that.
> IIRC over the decades, he used concentrated sulfuric acid and
> potassium chlorate. I think potassium permanganate would work
> well too. I understand that glycerine and potassium permanganate
> might do the job as well.
[snip]
A polyalcohol and KMnO4 work very well, according to Christopher J
Campbell:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.outdoors.camping/msg/5b65ab5fe0aa9179?
His "water" was actually a mixture of glucose and alcohol, and the
oxidizer was potassium permanganate crystals hidden in an aluminum pan
under the wood. He calls it the "Elijah trick."
(See the account in 1 Kings 18:
http://scriptures.lds.org/1_kgs/18/17-40#17).
Tracy Hall
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