Thursday, July 22, 2010

What are two chemicals that 1) will not burn/irritate your skin and 2) will burst into flames on contact?

I am a magician in the madison, wisconsin area and I am creating a new effect for my stage show. The effect involves simply touching a candle and having it light. One of the chemicals would be on my finger and the other on the wick of the candle. Is this a plausible trick?What are two chemicals that 1) will not burn/irritate your skin and 2) will burst into flames on contact?
Ok, this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but i do have something that you might find interesting.





It's something called Hot Ice.





You get sodium acetate, and water. And when you touch the mixed chemicals with a flake of sodium acetate, the result is an endothermic reaction that creates a soft ice-textured chemical that is hot.





The resulting product can be reheated and reproduced over and over again.





Here is a video link to basic instructions and some cool things to do with it, maybe you can implement it into one of your tricks as a fire then ice trick.





Hope this helps, good luck with your show!





http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_Q7FCKZmik

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