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? Tingles? Twinkles?

The video is on YouTube starting at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfEkPgfA7wo&feature=related

I'm guessing your tingly tinkly twinkly powder is towards the end of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTwEuMzpxHk&feature=related

Roughly at 7:58

The powder looks orange to me, and it turns black as it burns with little 
spangly fireworky glittery eruptions
-- 
John Dean
Oxford