Burning Sugar

[Curix]

Hello, I have big problem: In the country where I live: Belgium, It is very hard to find Kno3-, NaClO3-,KClO3-, etc-like stuff. Even worse, You can't buy many products with alot of "O". So after months of searching, I gave up.

 

But recently I saw a video of burning sugar, and I thought: That's almoast thesame as burning KNO3!!. And I tried and tried, but my sugar does only melts.

 

So my question is, how do I burn sugar? (Or can you give me an other good oxidator?)

 

 

(sorry for the bad english, I normally don't speak english, and I don't have much time.)

[YT2095]

sugar can be quite hard to set fire to, it needs a site to start from usually.

if you get some plain cigarette ash and add that to the top of the sugar pile, you can light it quite easily.

it likes a little bit of carbon to start it.

[Curix]

well after 2 packs of matches, I finally got the sugar burning (with ash from leafs) but it wasn't what I expected. It was like a pile of boiling black juice, not the bright orange flames that I have seen in the video.

But Is there an alternative thing for KNO3 or KClO3 or NaClO3? Soon I will have H2NO3 so I will be able to make nitrates from normal meteals like iron,aluminium,copper etc etc, will that be thesame as KNO3 and the others?

With ammonium, I should be able of making NH4(NO3) but I am afraid that that is too good.

[YT2095]

H2NO3 eh!

 

Fascinating! never heard of it??? and if it`s only for making nitrates then it`s a waste of good Hydrogen, you should try and get HNO3 (Nitric acid) it will also make Nitrates

 

and yes, when you burn sugar it does indeed look like black bubbling goop (don`t get any of it on your Skin when it`s like that Either!), next to molten plastic it`s one of the worst kind of burns to get in that catagory.

[Curix]

ow sorry HNO3, I feel ahame

[insane_alien]

you should see some of the ones YT has came up with. he knows his stuff but he has is 'off' moments.

[YT2095]

LOL, I`m just messin` with ya, I know ya Meant H2(NO3)2

[zerocool]

Thermite or magnesium strips would set the sugar on fire>

[PaulS1950]

You can get nitrates from urine - Potasium nitrate is what was made and used for centuries (and more) to make black powder.