OK.. so titanium iodide it was... black green crystals.. but this was a perfect powder...
Any ideas on its properties?.. besides the fact that if it could have probably been heated to release its iodine.. and likely would result in its trioxide, and free iodine smoking green, maybe...
In the phantom of the opera "fireballs, they resembled flaming pieces of tubular cordite, in how they burned and slightly changed course in the air... Maybe a piece of cordite was ignited by rubbing a sugar/permanganate mix..? Maybe the cordite was coated with sugar, and the glove had...
The titanium was in a plastic bottle without a lid... It was two shelves directly below the now opened bottle of iodine crystals... The titanium bottle was coated with sublimate of fine needle-like iodine crystals... The titanium was lab grade chunks of metal, 99.7% pure...
The acids were...
Oops! correction.. In the acid and permanganate reaction, the oxide became an unstable anhydride when the alcohol stripped the water off the oxide... I recall there was a slight pause between liquid layers before the detonation...
In reading more of the link you provided.. I see that p. permangante can be used as a survival fire starter.. by mixing sugar with it.. and rubbing it... So that's how they made those shooting fires in "phantom of the opera"... He must have rubbed a stage prop material, of finely powdered...
Hey!.. Thanks!.. So that explains the pleasant smell...
Then it was the oxide that detonated the moment it's anhydride contacted the alcohol...
I suppose the sulphuric acid stripped the water portions from the newly created unstable oxide as it floated up in the acid...
I didn't...
When I was 15, I dropped into a lab in a big city hospital.. The fellow there was doing illegal isotope experiments there... He took me under his wing to teach me some of the strange chemistry things he new... The one that still puzzles me today is his silly little acid/alcohol/p...