#flame tests

[silver-leaf-girl]

DnD headcanon: Fire Genasi - the kind heavily touched by Inferno, who have hair made of heat and flickering light - use metal salts to dye their hair. Chlorides of sodium, barium, and calcium give a conventional golden or blonde look, but rowdy teen planetouched dye their hair magenta with lithium, or chartreuse with boric acid. On formal occasions - weddings, religious ceremonies, state galas - they limn their hairlines with finely ground magnesium, to place sun-bright sparkles in their hair.

Specific details of colours here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test

[compoundchem]

This graphic looks at the colours produced by different metal & metalloid ions in flame tests, along with an explanation of the origin of the colours: http://wp.me/p4aPLT-4L

[idappreciateitifudidnt]

I was just doing some chemistry revision cause my exam's on Monday

And so I was revising flame tests

Only my brain isn't working so for like the past twenty minutes I've been reading it as "lame tests" and this little voice in my head was like "wow how rude you shouldn't just judge them like that"

And just

What