Mercury Thiocyanide - Neatorama

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Mercury thiocyanide {wiki} is the chemical once used in the fireworks called "snakes". Burning it produces poisonous mercury vapors. So don't try this at home! -via the Presurfer

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I can totally see ancient witch-priests dazzling the poor town-folk with this.

But then Ali S. has a good point about the witch trials!

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those things scarred the pavement in my carport

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Yum! Poison!

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As if I'm worried about mercury fumes when its got cyanide in the name ! So snakes are bad now ?

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Nate--BWAAHAHA! We used to do that too! Then we got bored and started to experiment. We discovered that if you dumped out several boxes and stacked them into a huge pyramid, and then lit the top one, it would start a chain reaction that lit the rest down the line. You could keep the fun going for eternity with enough boxes!

Mom banished us to the road after we filled the entire yard with sooty curls. Did you know that stuff turns into a black paste when it gets wet, and makes awesome shoe-prints all over freshly-cleaned carpet...? ;-)

--TwoDragons

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Setting them on fire would have been quicker. Theres lots of dancers around, you could replace the burnt ones. I suppose the quality of the dancing would have gone down hill a bit though.

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The constant speed change gets tiresome pretty quick. An effect like that should be used sparingly. Plus, needs more charring.

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Wait.. fire.. Phoenix dance team.. I get it now!

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