- 1). Fill the bottom of your double boiler with just enough water that it covers the bottom but doesn't touch the top boiler pot. If you don't own a double boiler, fill a sauce pot with water, then fit an oven safe glass bowl into the pot. Ensure the water doesn't touch the glass bowl.
- 2). Place the double boiler onto your stove and bring the water to a boil.
- 3). Place a few candles into the top of the boiler and allow them to completely melt.
- 4). Pour copper chloride, copper sulfate, potassium chloride and lithium chloride into separate small paper cups. You'll want about 1/4 inch of each different chemical into the separate cups.
- 5). Pour the melted candle wax into each cup. Pour just enough wax so it completely covers the chemicals.
- 6). Stir each wax/chemical mixture very quickly with an old spoon. Allow each the wax in each cup to cool completely and harden.
- 7). Peel the paper off of each cup, and save the "patties" for your next fire.
- 8). Throw each patty into the fire. Once the wax melts, the flame will turn a bright and vivid color depending on the chemical in the wax patty.
Copper chloride = blue flames
Copper sulfate = green flames
Potassium chloride = Purple flames
Lithium chloride = Pink flames
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