Re: Where does it _really_ come from, anyway?

On Oct 1, 7:04 am, "Paul J Kriha" <paul.nospam.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Richard Herring wrote:
In message
<ff2320fd-242e-4f42-83de-7bd938069...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter T. Daniels <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes

What kind of wood burns so hot as to show a blue flame?

Proto-wood, obviously. Not the degenerate and corrupt woods of today.

Proto-wood? Maybe, maybe.

My bet is on Magdalenian WOD.
That was the kind of WOD to BRN with RED and BLU FLM.

Your bet is no good. Magdalenian BRA means
right arm, the inverse ARB means branch, present
in French arbre 'tree', while, interestingly, English
branch is a derivative of BRA. Branches were seen
as 'arms' of trees.

Peter: did you never observe that flames of candles
are blue near the wicker? same for flames near
the surface of the wood, where there is not enough
oxygen. (Now don't tell me the concept of oxygen
is nonsense, it's phlogiston, actually.)
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