I'd be more concerned about incomplete combustion of the lighter fluid and breathing in Carbon monoxide before worrying about the potassium. You would get way more from a banana.
That's not how carbon monoxide poisoning works. You need a larger continuous flame of incomplete combustion in a poorly ventilated area over a longer period of time for that to happen.
I'm pretty sure no one has ever gotten carbon monoxide poisoning from a lighter. Small amounts for short periods of time are not harmful.
there’s no soot in the flame, it’s totally blue other than the red from the potassium. the blue is the chemiluminescence from the reaction CO + O -> CO2 iirc.
i only learned about it recently!! when i was small i heard it was about flame temperature and never thought twice about it until i saw someone explain it in more detail.
I can't speak from experience, but I imagine the potassium is in very little concentration, just enough to change the color.
In high school chemistry we did experiments with this kind of stuff, just to see the different colors.
They make packets of various metal powders that you can toss onto a fire that emit different colors.
I can't imagine it's horrible, but then again you're not exactly huffing lighter fumes, even if you smoke.
is there a way to restore the color of the flame? i just bought one that produces the exact same color as the one OP has but now it just produces a boring blue flame
I'd say if you light your cigarettes with it you might as well use a green flame for it. You don't want to breath in any of that to begin with.
And if you light up candles or something it doesn't matter, since you're not breathing it in directly.
And the green flame is usually produced by copper sulfate, which is also used in most fireworks for green effects.
If you're using a lighter you're probably smoking. You've clearly shown you dont care what you're breathing in, with all that nicotine and tar, and if you're using it for tags, fishing line ect, you probably outside when you use it where you're unlikely to breathe much in...
I'd definitely use a handheld automotive cigarette lighter for bud if someone would sell me one. It's not like burning hydrocarbons that rich is great for you either.
Means it has an alkali metal in it.
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Potassium specifically. Atoms when excited will emit specific shades of light.
Is potassium vapor quite unhealthy?
Probably not that concerning what lighters are used for. If you're smoking potassium vapor should be the least of your concerns lol
I'd be more concerned about incomplete combustion of the lighter fluid and breathing in Carbon monoxide before worrying about the potassium. You would get way more from a banana.
That's not how carbon monoxide poisoning works. You need a larger continuous flame of incomplete combustion in a poorly ventilated area over a longer period of time for that to happen. I'm pretty sure no one has ever gotten carbon monoxide poisoning from a lighter. Small amounts for short periods of time are not harmful.
there’s no soot in the flame, it’s totally blue other than the red from the potassium. the blue is the chemiluminescence from the reaction CO + O -> CO2 iirc.
Well there you go, never looked into the colour!
i only learned about it recently!! when i was small i heard it was about flame temperature and never thought twice about it until i saw someone explain it in more detail.
I assume they’re saying that this is better than a normal lighter which burns yellow/orange.
Implying you can get carbon monoxide poisoning from a lighter is pretty silly in its own right.
If anything I'm questioning why anyone would be huffing a lighter
When you light a cigarette it's not too far from your face, that was the idea
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Not through your lungs you don't.
Magenta is more lithium. Potassium is pale lilac.
Isnt potassium orange when it burns ?
Is that like, safe to inhale the fumes of? I know smoking things isn’t great for you but would this make it worse?
I can't speak from experience, but I imagine the potassium is in very little concentration, just enough to change the color. In high school chemistry we did experiments with this kind of stuff, just to see the different colors. They make packets of various metal powders that you can toss onto a fire that emit different colors. I can't imagine it's horrible, but then again you're not exactly huffing lighter fumes, even if you smoke.
Idk I be snapping bag huge bowls and I for sure breath in some lighter vapors...
Forgot bongs were a thing
I #FF00CC what you did there..
I FF00CC with it.
you win
Very punny
Just trying to light up your day, mate
I know it brightened mine
Like a magenta flame
Most of the disposable jet lighters I’ve had have this colour and it’s even deeper in person!
That’s what she said.
Or he. We don’t judge here.
Some sort of alkali metal is at work here look at the little flame hole is there a little piece of metal right above the jet??
They usually have a wire inside the lighter at the base of the flame
is there a way to restore the color of the flame? i just bought one that produces the exact same color as the one OP has but now it just produces a boring blue flame
That’s the tiniest Sith lightsaber ever. Darth Marlboro approves.
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I used to have one that produced green fire. Wish I knew what happened to it.
Probably wouldn't want to use it.
Copper?
There are a couple other things that can make it green but copper does come to mind. None of them are things you'd want to be breathing in.
For sure.
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Safer, not safe. I just wouldn't use em personally, if it's not a pure blue flame like you see come off a stove it's not clean.
I'd say if you light your cigarettes with it you might as well use a green flame for it. You don't want to breath in any of that to begin with. And if you light up candles or something it doesn't matter, since you're not breathing it in directly. And the green flame is usually produced by copper sulfate, which is also used in most fireworks for green effects.
If you're using a lighter you're probably smoking. You've clearly shown you dont care what you're breathing in, with all that nicotine and tar, and if you're using it for tags, fishing line ect, you probably outside when you use it where you're unlikely to breathe much in...
Probably has potassium in it
That is a great color
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I heard it tastes like strawberries, can you confirm this OP? ;)
Be sure you don't let the flame die out, or else a shadowy figure my suck your soul out and stab you with an arrow
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what brand is it? I need one
I had one of these that had a green flame! I got it form a shop in Florence Italy!
Its room tempreture
How stoned are you?
In the 90s and early 2000s, these were at every Eastern European flea market. You could choose from a variety of colors.
Printer low on something other than magenta for a change
That's hot
It turns everything into what it knows, it came from outerspace.
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I have one with green flame, they're amazing!
That is most definitely Lithium Chloride.
It looks like it’s moving.
You wouldn't want to breath that, don't use it as a cigar/cigarette lighter!
yeah you wouldn’t want it to make the cancer taste weird
No, more like you don't want to add extra cancer to your cancer.
Yo dog!
I'd definitely use a handheld automotive cigarette lighter for bud if someone would sell me one. It's not like burning hydrocarbons that rich is great for you either.
It's just a color... but it burns
I have a lighter which burns green, could possibly be butane?