Re: mystery powder

Hactar wrote:
> I just watched "Der Lauf der Dinge" (English title: "The Way Things
> Go").  It's a Rube Goldberg-ish sequence (rather, lots of sequences
> spliced together in a half hour) involving a lot of fire, fuzes, and
> electricity.  About 18 minutes in, there is a bit with piles of black
> powder that tinkles as it burns.  What could it be?  Something metallic?


Tinkles as it burns or burns as it tinkles? I'm not sure of the former,
but 
I'm pretty sure the latter is some kind of STD.

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