Re: Any Good Ethanol Soluble Pigments?

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:51:24 -0700 (PDT), mikes2653
<mikes2653@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>The carbon content of methanol is less than that of ethanol. There is
>accordingly less tendency for the burning of methanol to produce
>uncombusted carbon in the flame that gives rise to black-body emission
>(the 'yellow in the flame' that washes out the spectra of the color
>imparters, as mentioned in the undernoted post).

This is nonsense. Both alcohols burn with a blue flame that is nearly
invisible in sunlight or other bright light. Anything else is the
result of impurities.

Casady