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mihrstears

send this to your crush. Just.. just do it

#haha me

i'm back!!!

good morning!!!!

nanodash

So this is what happens when you mix salts of different metals (Lithium, Strontium, Sodium, Copper, and Potassium) into methanol and then light that sucker.

Pretty colours is what.

Each metal has a different configuration of electrons orbiting in the atom. When the different atoms get energy from the heat, the electrons in the different metals will be excited by a different amount. When they de-excite they release that energy as light. Different metals release different eneriges. Different energies is different colours. The more energy, the violeter the light.

Using different metal salts is also how fireworks do the thing.

See the streetlight yellow in the Sodium (Na)? Well that’s because we use sodium lamps in streetlights

#this is so cool #gif //#fire //#science!

decaythanksbye-deactivated20150

youll get there dude

silveryttrium

i don't see why i have to go outside, there's nothing good out there anyway.

decaythanksbye-deactivated20150

im trying to get him to hold still so i can take a selfie but hes old as dirt and seems to think the camera will kill him so were working on that first and foremost

have you improved any on the “go outside” front??

silveryttrium

that's amazing.

and no i haven't gone outside at all since the first time i did it.

i'm still at 77 followers.

#i thought i lost some but nope.