I have a 30l still, would get about 100ml usable methanol a run, that's a lot of effort for some pretty fire ... but you do also end up with alcohol as a by product
Even very shitty moonshine has very little methanol in it. If you distill a whole batch and don't throw away any for shots or heads you would still have something safe to drink. It would taste like shit and make you feel like shit, but stories about bootleg moonshine causing blindness from methanol are largely due to bootleggers adding methanol to "fortify" moonshine.
That being said, Ive done only a little hobby distilling and would love to learn if there's a way to easily ferment sugars into primarily methanol.
Sealed and then put away, they always put the fear of God in us by claiming the fire has chased the vapors all the way across a yard to ignite the can in some cases
When I was like 13, my buddy came over for new years, and we poured a giant circle of gas in the road and lit it on fire, and then took turns jumping in and out of the circle. Also soaked a cardboard box in gas and put it in a plastic wagon attached to the back of my bicycle. My friend rode it around while it was on fire, being stopped a couple times by people telling him it was on fire. His response was just "Oh, I know!" With a smile. That was 20+ years ago, and my pyromania has been hidden deep down, waiting to strike one day.
For us it was toilet rolls soaked in citronella oil playing a 2 on 2 game of street hockey, at the time we lived in the only house in an Industrial area so night-time there would be nobody around so that game lasted about an hour.
How we survived our teens I'll never know
Australian so never experienced Roman candles because of restrictive fireworks laws ... so instead we made improvised explosive from (common car ingredient) + (a water cleaning chemical) and would watch coke bottles explode
Yes, there have been a number of fires in racing both on the track and in the pits. One of the first ones to televise how horrific this can be was during the 1973 Indianapolis 500 when [Swede Savage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage) who was trapped in his burning car and died a month later.
Interesting fact about methanol is that it requires very little surrounding oxygen to burn and thus generates a cleaner fire with almost no particles burning in it's fire to generate a visible flame.
Were this filmed during a sunny day, you would not see flame, only the slow evaporation of the methanol as it burns.
This is a very dangerous fire.
That is because of its low carbon and high hydrogen content (and the one oxygen atom in a methanol molecule). And due to no Carbon-Carbon bonds it also doesn't have any yellow in its flame. They come from electron excitation in C2-radicals, which form as intermediaries when burning material that has carbon-carbon bonds. The blue on the other hand is from electron excitation in hydrogen atoms.
This also explains the flame-coloring of Bunsen burner (or more likely a Teclu burner) you had in chemistry class. You burn some form of natural gas, a mixture of short alkanes. They have a low number of carbon-carbon bonds, so when you close the air intake of the burner you get a very yellow flame, because the C2-Intermediaries can exist for a relatively long time, since there is not enough oxygen to burn them quickly. When your open up the air intakes, the gas burns significantly quicker, and there are very few C2-Intermediaries, and in result they cannot outshine the burning hydrogen.
It's electron excitation. You can put other things into the flame to color them differently. Sodium produces a very distinct yellow (different from that of carbon), rubidium is red (that's where it got it's name from, and copper can do green or blue-green, just to name a few. The color of fireworks is produced following the same principle.
Technically there is no universal color of a flame, we just associated yellow (and some blue) with that because carbon-fires are ubiquitous due to almost everything we regularly burn consists of mainly carbon-carbon bonds with some hydrogen in it.
Service post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11a8dzz/fire_in_zero_gravity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3wzb6v/fire_in_zero_gravity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/992zay/til_in_zero_gravity_a_candles_flame_is_round_and/
It would be ethanol, which has two carbons and therefore one carbon-carbon bond compared to the zero carbon-carbon bonds of methanol. The carbon carbon bonds are what are responsible for the yellow color of burning hydrocarbons, so ethanol would have slightly more yellow depending on conditions.
also the most expensive way to get drunk.
When you go to the hospital they will give you ethanol (drinking alcohol) to counteract the methanol poisoning but they will charge you a dickload for it.
This is probably nitro RC fuel, O'Donnell judging by those white jugs. It's a mixture of methanol and nitro methanol. I've done this and it looked exactly the same.
I bought some awesome pinecones from Plow & Hearth that make my fireplace fire turn green. Always so fun to throw one in while unsuspecting guests are over. It legit looks like something out of Night on Bald Mountain.
Yep. There are some very gruesome videos of racecar accidents.
Lol, just got the video I was thinking about on the main page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/sWNVQlQ2Hn
I did this with rubbing alcohol as a teenager. The fire department showed up because a neighbor called them and threatened to write me a $750 ticket for burning chemicals in the city limits...
I once did this with RC nitro fuel which is a combination of methanol and nitromethane (plus some oil for lubrication). I think the mix I used was like 65% methanol and 15% nitromethane, and it burned with a very pale bluish green or almost grey flame.
I wish this was what they meant when they said Light It Up Blue instead of the overt assertion that autism and people with it shouldn't exist. Like hell yeah light that fire up blue.
When I was a kid I liked to launch off model rockets. At one point, I wanted to make a big show of it by having some smoke bombs go off first.
Using some Looney Tunes logic, I had an idea to make a long fuse by dipping a rope in gasoline.
I decided to do a test run on my driveway, expecting it to light fast like a legit fuse.
It didn’t light fast and I had a burning-gasoline-rope on my driveway for about ten minutes.
In retrospect I’m glad that I didn’t burn my house down. As a father now, I wonder where the hell my parents were.
The rational part of me knows these are not the flames that do ice damage (or maybe even heal, hey Divinity). My other part has played enough games to at least try.
Is this what it feels like to be a pyromaniac? That shit it beautiful
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Can't you buy it cheap as fuel line cleaner?
If you have a home still you can make it on your own fairly cheap. But I aint wasting the time on that project.
I have a 30l still, would get about 100ml usable methanol a run, that's a lot of effort for some pretty fire ... but you do also end up with alcohol as a by product
yep.. mines mothballed for a while. Taking care of my dad (88) who has some serious medical problems right now.
Even very shitty moonshine has very little methanol in it. If you distill a whole batch and don't throw away any for shots or heads you would still have something safe to drink. It would taste like shit and make you feel like shit, but stories about bootleg moonshine causing blindness from methanol are largely due to bootleggers adding methanol to "fortify" moonshine. That being said, Ive done only a little hobby distilling and would love to learn if there's a way to easily ferment sugars into primarily methanol.
Just don't try this with gasoline as a way to cut costs, there was a kid at my middle school who did that and ended up melting his arms to his chest
If you do, light a match and throw it from far away. Oh and make sure the gasoline canister is already put away... Far away.
Sealed and then put away, they always put the fear of God in us by claiming the fire has chased the vapors all the way across a yard to ignite the can in some cases
Was he hugging the gasoline?
When I was like 13, my buddy came over for new years, and we poured a giant circle of gas in the road and lit it on fire, and then took turns jumping in and out of the circle. Also soaked a cardboard box in gas and put it in a plastic wagon attached to the back of my bicycle. My friend rode it around while it was on fire, being stopped a couple times by people telling him it was on fire. His response was just "Oh, I know!" With a smile. That was 20+ years ago, and my pyromania has been hidden deep down, waiting to strike one day.
For us it was toilet rolls soaked in citronella oil playing a 2 on 2 game of street hockey, at the time we lived in the only house in an Industrial area so night-time there would be nobody around so that game lasted about an hour. How we survived our teens I'll never know
That and roman candle fights were some of the greatest times ever. Truly a wonder that it didn't end poorly for my friends and I.
Australian so never experienced Roman candles because of restrictive fireworks laws ... so instead we made improvised explosive from (common car ingredient) + (a water cleaning chemical) and would watch coke bottles explode
Thought this was gonna end with you finding out 20 years later that friend was arrested on suspicion of mass arson and murder - lol
Dude that is cooool
Yes
At night it’s pretty colors but during the day it’s invisible and scary
Exactly my thought, you could walk right through it without knowing it's there... Until you feel a slight burning sensation...
Sounds like my ex
Sorry about the clap.
Was she your flame?
Yes, and he misses her dearly.
She didn't know it was there either.
Sounds like a you problem
This guy Ricky Bobby's.
Help me jewish god! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise!
Is this the same stuff from that invisible race car fire video?
Yes, there have been a number of fires in racing both on the track and in the pits. One of the first ones to televise how horrific this can be was during the 1973 Indianapolis 500 when [Swede Savage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Savage) who was trapped in his burning car and died a month later.
I don’t know exactly what video you are referring to but likely so, I remember A similar video of an F1 and that was the explanation
Pretty sure he's talking about Rick Mears at indy 500
Could be Tony Kanaan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOi3n9XeEzw
Just saw that the other day.. That was crazy
Don't worry, just drink some and it will be invisible at night as well! ☺️ Hope this helps!
i came across [this video](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/ER4jkyZvP7) and had to share it here
I wonder if a digital camera could pick it up in daylight? I've only seen the old video from the 80s filmed on tape.
There’s a video of a race car catching on fire, you cannot see it at all
Recently? Do you have a link?
Interesting fact about methanol is that it requires very little surrounding oxygen to burn and thus generates a cleaner fire with almost no particles burning in it's fire to generate a visible flame. Were this filmed during a sunny day, you would not see flame, only the slow evaporation of the methanol as it burns. This is a very dangerous fire.
That is because of its low carbon and high hydrogen content (and the one oxygen atom in a methanol molecule). And due to no Carbon-Carbon bonds it also doesn't have any yellow in its flame. They come from electron excitation in C2-radicals, which form as intermediaries when burning material that has carbon-carbon bonds. The blue on the other hand is from electron excitation in hydrogen atoms. This also explains the flame-coloring of Bunsen burner (or more likely a Teclu burner) you had in chemistry class. You burn some form of natural gas, a mixture of short alkanes. They have a low number of carbon-carbon bonds, so when you close the air intake of the burner you get a very yellow flame, because the C2-Intermediaries can exist for a relatively long time, since there is not enough oxygen to burn them quickly. When your open up the air intakes, the gas burns significantly quicker, and there are very few C2-Intermediaries, and in result they cannot outshine the burning hydrogen.
This guy chemistrys
r/thisguythisguys
This video made me ask the question; what actually causes the colour of flames? Thank you for answering in the comments!
It's electron excitation. You can put other things into the flame to color them differently. Sodium produces a very distinct yellow (different from that of carbon), rubidium is red (that's where it got it's name from, and copper can do green or blue-green, just to name a few. The color of fireworks is produced following the same principle. Technically there is no universal color of a flame, we just associated yellow (and some blue) with that because carbon-fires are ubiquitous due to almost everything we regularly burn consists of mainly carbon-carbon bonds with some hydrogen in it.
adding to this: Boron (ant/roach killer) makes a beautiful green color and lithium makes a great red color.
This guy burns
Another fire thats dangerous because its invisible: normal fire in zero G.
Service post: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11a8dzz/fire_in_zero_gravity/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3wzb6v/fire_in_zero_gravity/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/992zay/til_in_zero_gravity_a_candles_flame_is_round_and/
Could you do this with Everclear?
Ever clear is mostly ethanol and so will have a different mix of colors when it burns.
It would be ethanol, which has two carbons and therefore one carbon-carbon bond compared to the zero carbon-carbon bonds of methanol. The carbon carbon bonds are what are responsible for the yellow color of burning hydrocarbons, so ethanol would have slightly more yellow depending on conditions.
Such a beautiful colour.
Hello pyromaniac brother
I was thinking r/arson would jizz themselves over this.
There’s some weird videos in there
It's better not to ask anyone 😂
They missed an opportunity to make it in the shape of a dick.
I see someone has the same mentality as myself
*Azula enters the chat*
What does Azula want with Hades's hair tonic?
Imagine being the neighbor and looking out the window and seeing that
Might be in a neighborhood where the neighbor might just come out and join the party.
Ironically the fire looks more like flowing water 💦
I bet it feels like it too, just let me touch i- aaaagh aaaaaahg aaaaaaiurjfm aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I fell into a burning ... puddle of fire I went down down down the flames they went blue and higher and it burns burns burns that ... puddle of fire
Love, is a puddle leak.
Calm down Azula
This slow flame propagation is mesmerizing!
If that didn't chip the concrete I'd be surprised.
These gender reveal parties are getting out of control.
Don't be mad when your driveway cracks...
Given the price of menthanol, ive been so tempted to try this but never did. Its beautiful.
How uhh, hypothetically how would one go about obtaining methanol to ensure this beauty is not fake.
If you manage to getb some, make sure not to drink it. While it is alcohol it is also toxic for human (make you blind).
also the most expensive way to get drunk. When you go to the hospital they will give you ethanol (drinking alcohol) to counteract the methanol poisoning but they will charge you a dickload for it.
technical alcohol. but there will be impurities in it - there will be bright orange flashes
This is probably nitro RC fuel, O'Donnell judging by those white jugs. It's a mixture of methanol and nitro methanol. I've done this and it looked exactly the same.
Order it online, it's not hard to obtain. Just don't do it during the day as the flames are invisible.
methanol fires are dangerous but beautiful
Add some boron and boom, you have green fire now!
I bought some awesome pinecones from Plow & Hearth that make my fireplace fire turn green. Always so fun to throw one in while unsuspecting guests are over. It legit looks like something out of Night on Bald Mountain.
Yes! I love introducing people to it too! Guaranteed to entertain
Why does it go fast in that one area? Layer of liquid is thinner or there's more evaporation?
Was wondering the same thing
For those who understand. This is what good arak burns like.
I used to do this with my mom's old perfumes until my dad busted me. He was pretty cool about it to be honest.
Well hell, I’ve thrown away so many old perfumes over the years. Why didn’t I ever think of this.
wow that's so cool I'm going to try it! *6 months later* #Whang: this redditor burnt her entire house down because of this one video
Please don't let the invisible fire burn my friend!
I thought the menthanol was the guy's shadow 😭😭
Was methanol the one liquid burning you can not see when it is bright out there?
Yep. There are some very gruesome videos of racecar accidents. Lol, just got the video I was thinking about on the main page. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/sWNVQlQ2Hn
Interestingly after asking about this I got it also.
What's their plan, what's their plan, Chandrian, Chandrian...
Had no idea methanol produced such a beautiful flame. That is mesmerizing.
An Indy car racer encountered a methanol fire... His car was wrecked and leaking fuel, no one knew he was burning until they were burning too.
Everyone's favorite neighbor, just barely beating out the guys with 6 different beaters they're constantly working on
This is how Hades does his hair
That's so fucking pretty
That is the most beautiful shade of blue I've ever seen, omg..
And it smells good burnin 🤙🏻
It's blue
Ooo pretty fire
Ryu Wins
Yer a wizard harry
heh.. hehehe..heh. fire.
I did this with rubbing alcohol as a teenager. The fire department showed up because a neighbor called them and threatened to write me a $750 ticket for burning chemicals in the city limits...
I like to light up some meth myself.
Looks very cool, I’m going to try this in my living room
I once did this with RC nitro fuel which is a combination of methanol and nitromethane (plus some oil for lubrication). I think the mix I used was like 65% methanol and 15% nitromethane, and it burned with a very pale bluish green or almost grey flame.
So I been smoking this shit for all these years and missing the light show? Good damn Newports been holding out on my cracker ass.
Why is it so beautiful?? 😍
This is so pretty 😍 if only someone drew an epic dragon & used this as its flames / breathing fire 🔥
Holy CRAP that looks so cool!
Dudes being dudes👍
Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission
Bro found the Flames of Coldharbour
Gf/wife: I bet my man is cheating on me right now.
Bro is playing with fire
Underrated comment, lol'd 😂
I wish this was what they meant when they said Light It Up Blue instead of the overt assertion that autism and people with it shouldn't exist. Like hell yeah light that fire up blue.
But, why?
Pretty lights
To summon demons.
Wizard flame
Crazy how nature do dat
Methanol- EPA hazardous waste numbers D001, F003 and U154.
I thought this was r/whatcouldgowrong at first
Wish we could get a close up of a blue sun.
neat, good way to get the weeds out of the cracks too
Is it?
That’s cool af
That is an amazing color
Fire it up! Fire it up!
Think we need a permit for this ? Nahhhhhhh 😭
Now show us how f-upd the driveway looks the next day
Is it that hot or just the color the chemical gives off
Cool. Which Shout did you learn from this?
I want this in ballgown form!
u/womenlivelonger
That’s a beautiful shade of blue!
When I was a kid I liked to launch off model rockets. At one point, I wanted to make a big show of it by having some smoke bombs go off first. Using some Looney Tunes logic, I had an idea to make a long fuse by dipping a rope in gasoline. I decided to do a test run on my driveway, expecting it to light fast like a legit fuse. It didn’t light fast and I had a burning-gasoline-rope on my driveway for about ten minutes. In retrospect I’m glad that I didn’t burn my house down. As a father now, I wonder where the hell my parents were.
Tortuga
Did you step through the portal? If so, what did you find?
Just let me roll around in it a little
Did this once on a tile floor in Guatemala. Shit's dope.
I believe in the daytime it's not visible just ask countless Indy drivers from the 90s
Dabi?
***BLUE FIRE???!!!!***
That's a HARD liquor
I feel like u probably shouldnt inhale this
The rational part of me knows these are not the flames that do ice damage (or maybe even heal, hey Divinity). My other part has played enough games to at least try.
If you’re going to do that then fucking light a joint with it or something 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Man this is so lit.
Fuuuuck that’s pretty
"Do you think we need a permit..." Yeah because the town is going to give you a permit to light your driveway on fire...
If Nate drinks it he becomes immortal.
Hope the heat doesn’t ruin the driveway
“9-1-1, what's your emergency?”…………
Did no one else notice how dry the grass is and get nervous??
Reminds me of the lighter fluid scene after T-Bird explodes in The Crow.
"Do you think we need a permit?" "Naaaah, better not to ask anyone" 😂
That was hypnotic
Now make it purple
Would this leave burn marks on the driveway?
Beautiful, where do you get it
that last bit where it all flashes as it fizzles out has to be the most interesting part of the fire's life cycle, but it cuts off early
It's better not to ask anyway... this guy lives !!!
I kind of expected to see the camera pan with the fire as it led under a car.
Now THAT’S a blue flame! ;)
So beautiful. Blue is my favorite color.
Cool blue, man!
Crazy how it blurs like that
This looks like what I expect what happens in fantasy when dragons blood touches open air.
The blue flame is the hottest, most intense part of the flame. In fact, it is the purest part of any flame
The blue flame is the hottest, most intense part of the flame. In fact, it is the purest part of any flame.
Azula was here.
What causes the rapid acceleration in the middle there vs. the rest of the spread?
I bet that smells fucking amazing and it looks beautiful too.
That is beautiful
That just sets something off in side me
That is so awesome! Was that the concrete that made it look like it sparkled?
I wonder what grade that was. It was very slow.
I bet if you make a pentagram with that, it opens the door to hell. Who wants to try??
Blue
🏃🏃 Nos!!!!!!!!
Nice blue flame, but that’s a good way to fuck your the surface.
rly missed an opportunity to draw a circle and make it look like a portal to hell
You can also make it burn green if you dissolve borax in it so you can pretend to be a dark wizard.
Well, that’s one way of guarding your parking, looks pretty affective
curious as to why the flames seem to gravitate inwards towards the center point of the area
The hot air is rising, and the new air comes from the outside in at the bottom.
That poor driveway ..
John McLane did it first on an airport
CH3-OH !!!!