Salt doesn’t really burn (though if you can get it to melt you can get a nice orange flame from the sodium burning off), and if you put enough of it on the fire at once it could smother it. Mostly because the salt doesn’t burn or atomize, so it won’t rise up to hit the meat.

Flame can cause flour to explode. Flour explodes when its particles become suspended in the air in a dust cloud and are then ignited.

As astonishing as it may sound, the fact is that flour dust is more explosive than gunpowder and 35 times more combustible than coal dust. However, it is not explosive in small, non-dispersed quantities.

Fire can be put out with seawater, though it is not usually used to do so. Saltwater can effectively extinguish fire, but it may damage firefighting equipment and hurt plant life if used. Saltwater use creates problems for both the water distributing equipment and the surrounding environment.

Basic table salt burns yellow. The flames coming off of copper are bluish-green. Potassium burns violet. With all of these salts burning different colors, all teachers have to do is line them up in the order of colors in a rainbow — red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

releases hydrogen gas; the heat of the reaction can set the gas on fire. people. piece of sodium into a container of chlorine gas and warms the container. charge, the sodium atom becomes electrically unbalanced – positively charged.

If you want to get a little witchy with your salt, you can sprinkle or place bowls of salt in the corners of your rooms that need energy cleansing. The salt will do its job to absorb any negative energy or toxins and after a few hours you can vacuum it up, or toss it out.

Magnesium sulfate: Makes a white flame. Strontium chloride: Makes a red flame. Copper chloride: Makes a blue flame. Sodium chloride: Makes an orange flame.