michael caden pike

I seem to have generated some confusion here, to clear this up I have an awesome video example: 

http://www.youtube.c...0qYNDlkhQ#t=145

This guy is however using white gas/colemans fuel on his wicks. Which is not kerosene. But I think you basically get the idea. I don't quite know what's going on here, I think the metal powder is only igniting when it gets in contact with the air, I think maybe the fire is suffocating it until it falls off. 

He's put ferro-titanium on his wicks, well I assume so, unless there is some other chemical that would have that effect that you guys know of? (Ferr-titanium is a lot of fun when added to cremora, any other chemicals like that, that anyone knows about?)

So what I'm wondering is: Is there a way of making these 'sparks' coming off the fire coloured? Either using a different metal or metal alloy, or micro-micro-stars without a fuel element? (Like how dextrin is a fuel... because the kerosene will be the fuel....)

No, there's too much yellow (sodium?) in kerosene for any flame colourants to be visible, you would have to use meths as a fuel and unburnt wicks. 

But that's not what I am talking about. I want the sparks / glitter coming off the fire to be coloured, not the flame itself.