smoke color?

[nuschultz]

Just curious if anyone has some food coloring...  if so... Drop a couple drops in for me and see if it changes the color of your smoke.  I am really curious, but I don't have any food coloring, and I don't feel like running to the store at 1130pm.

[d_apathy]

LOL! wow did you not learn anything in chemistry?

[nuschultz]

Yet you conveniently failed to answer the question.  Nice flame.

[Alqoshnia]

i dont think this will work, because Ive tried purple grape juice (not 100% juice) and the smoke was white. Given that the juice was not 100% fruit juice, Im sure they have added some kind of coloring because it was a very dark grape juice. I know its not EXACTLY what you were lookin for, but I thought it would help

[nuschultz]

Algo, that helps quite a bit.  Thanks, I appreciate it.

[d_apathy]

[quote name='nuschultz']Yet you conveniently failed to answer the question.  Nice flame.[/quote] Different elements burn diff colors. Chances are even if you found a way to change the color wouldnt be healthy for you.

[Halon]

[quote name='d_apathy']Different elements burn diff colors. Chances are even
if you found a way to change the color wouldnt be healthy for you.[/quote]
The only stuff I know of is sh*t like Magnesium and the like. 
Some butane torch lighters use elements like this to change the flame
color to purple, red, or green.  I'm not aware of anything to
change smoke color, and putting magnesium or anything near shisha can't
possibly be good for your health.


TYLER

[Bane]

I put a bunch of green food coloring in my hookah base for st. patty's day, half-hoping it might change the smoke color.  No dice 

[Cornellius]

It won't help because almost everything gives out white smoke when burned but certain elements change the colour when exposed to extreme heat such as copper, metal and such but heat from the coal would not be enough to do this reaction. There might be chemical solutions that would give colour to smoke at lower degrees but even those would not guarentee that it will be healthy... Smoking tobacco is unhealthy enough, I do not think anybody would risk heavy metal poisoning just to have some colour...

[Sonthert]

Wow. Coloring in gases and liquids are different. Water and glycerine appear the same, for all intents in purposes, but water vapor is nearly clear while glycerine is white. Food coloring, if you were to vaporize it would not necessarily be the same color as it is in its liquid state, if it vaporizes at all. Spectroscopy does indeed deal with the different colors of elements, the effects are caused by the heating that excites electrons and then they return to normal, emitting radiation. Food coloring has little to deal with spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is a process for qualitative analysis, predominantly, although it is used in the fireworks industry to a degree. Food coloring involves using water soluble chemicals that absorb and reflect the correct spectra of radiation, one is a bright line emission phenomenon (Spectroscopy), one is a dark-line absorbtion phenomenon (food coloring)! Vapors/gases tend to have less diversity in colors then do liquids or solids. Spectroscopy is always done on a liquid or a solid, never a gas, if you see what I mean. Cholrine gas has a slight greenish color, bromide has an oily yellow-orange color about it vapors. Sulfur fumes yellowish. D_Apathy is right, though, it probably wouldn't be good for you...If I think about it, I'll look into safe vapor colorizers, preferably flavorless, too.

[Lukasa]

Oh man.  I can see it now...

Tangiers Caffeinated Green Green Apple

[Bob_760]

Personally I think it'd be allmost TOO weird to have some strange colored smoke leaving my lungs... But I'd probably do it anyway if Tangiers finds a way

[Sariél]

It's all about the lighting.In a dark/dimly lit room, set up a little focused, colored spotlight, and blow the smoke into its path. No chemical poisons involved.

[mushrat]

I recall AF melon having a pink tinge to the smoke..but i think that was because the Ma'asell itself was BRIGHT BRIGHT red to begin with....

[sunnyD]

i gotta get that then, was it good?

[mushrat]

now, I'm not saying your smoke will be real red or anything, don't get too excited. It just looked like it had kind of a pinkish hue to it. And not everyone agreed with me who smoked it...
It is very tasty and worth smoking reguardless.

[Sonthert]

Yeah, some smokes seem to have a slight yellow or pink tinge to them...I know what you mean.

[dikydave]

"wtf...why are my teeth pink?!" o well, at least the smoke looks cool.

[Seandoo]

Reminds me of lighting smoke bombs a few years back on the 4th of July.
Didn't smell too great, wouldn't breathe it in, but it was
neat-lookin'.
Have fun coming up with colored smoke, let us know if anybody's successful...

[Scimita_R]

i was googling this wondering if there was a way, going on the basis that the AF melon is slightly pink, what if you jst added lots of colouring to the ma3asel itself....???

[EternalSoil]

then it would taste like shit and be old as hell!

like this thread!

[JillyIsJustKidding]

then it would taste like shit and be old as hell!

like this thread!

Lol I didn't expect to read that when I clicked on the second page >_< lmao

[EternalSoil]

hmmm... i dont even remember why i posted that last night.... weird.

[Johnny_D]

hmmm... i dont even remember why i posted that last night.... weird.

Drunken Posting... FTW!

And yer, this coloured smoke thing seems to come round fairly often. Thus far the conclusions appear to be highly unlikely.

[mathuv]

hmmm... i dont even remember why i posted that last night.... weird.

cos ur random. man colord smoke would be great. for starters, people would associate hookahs less with illicit substances when they see someone smoking outside and it would also get more people into hookah, so great for hookah bars. if someone manages to turn WATER VAPOUR a different colour...then they can make coloured hookah smoke..