OK, fine, I have a problem, I admit it: I'm in love with fire. It was forged when my pyromaniac father regaled me of his youth burning things he shouldn't. Luckily, I didn't have a chemistry teacher like Mr. Sully to nurture it even further. But man, do I wish I did.
Some high school chemistry teachers will go so far as to set one thing on fire, but Mr. Sully positively pwns all of them with his rainbow display:
Usually, chemists just smear a little bit of the exotic salt onto a platinum wire and hold it in a Bunsen burner's flame, but Mr. Sully dissolved the salts in methanol and went all Ghost Rider on it. The result is several different bright colored flames, each corresponding to a different element. Not groundbreaking, maybe, but certainly dramatic.
I know I don't need to tell you not to do this at home after the last time we brought up fire, but I'm telling you: Don't do this at home. Leave it up to the chemistry badasses like Sully and the pyromaniac idiots like me.
Via Wired Science
Previously:
Magic Fireballs make you a wizard with the ladies, pyros
UPDATE: Magic Fireballs may make you a wizard, but more likely to burn you
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