Fun Friday Fire Project - Green Fire

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July 14, 2009 at 1:16 pm

(1) Dave says:

This is sort of reminiscent of the green flames when the engines of the SR-71 Blackbird airplane are started (although, in the SR-71’s case, it was due to a different Boron compound, TriEthylBorane):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sr-71#Fuel

Dave

March 25, 2010 at 9:17 pm

(2) Kate says:

Actually, I believe this project demostrates why the green flash would appear when the J-58s of the SR-71 (and other Blackbirds) were ignated with triethyl borane. This is triethyl borane. The borane comes from boron, and the HEET(R) would donate the 3 ethyl groups. Hence Tri Ethyl Borane.