/sci/ - Science & Math

Was halfassing some experimentation the last couple of days in prep for Halloween to set up with some green fire for my decorations and kept running into an issue.

Stuff I had on hand:
>methanol
>sodium-tetroborate (borax)
>boric acid

Mixed the methanol with the borax and was getting a orange/red flame from that, where when I did the methanol and boric acid mix I was getting the green flames I desired.


With the borax mix am I just running into an issue with sodium contamination and it was overpowering the boron and I need to be using much less borax in my solution?


Also I attempted to use sterno cans at one point and had no success with the boric acid or borax, did they change their formulation?

Gif is from last night using a.... I think 6 oz of methanol to 1 oz of boric acid powder mixture (think it was an ounce I was kinda doing this freehand and trying not to blow my eyebrows off)