If i recall it was a white powder. We have to make guesses as part of our assignment.
2007-06-19 08:45:52 · 4 answers · asked by Chem_Student 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
My explosives instructor did this. It's powdered coffee creamer. The technique is called a cremora fireball, it's used for billowing flames in special effects films.
2007-06-19 09:29:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably flour. Confectioners ("powdered") sugar is also a probability. Dust explosions are a chronic danger in mills. You have a fine powder of carbohydrate in air oxygen, and a spark will set it off.
2007-06-19 08:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could it have been a Brown powder? Are you sure it wasn't a dry form of a Methane Residue commonly found in the household bathroom or their undershorts
2007-06-19 08:56:20 · answer #3 · answered by Ben D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flour. Confectioner's sugar might pull it off. Almost any extremely finely divided flammable material, given its huge surface/volume ratio, will "whoose" when sprinkled into a flame. The compacted material will not.
2007-06-19 08:52:26 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋