[Alouette]

My husband used to teach 9th grade chemistry. He had one experiment, which he performed for his class out on the playground, in which he created a raging fire by mixing two common ingredients that can be purchased at any hardware store and drugstore. The fire could not be put out with water, in fact pouring water on it would make it burn hotter.

He stopped doing the experiment about 15 years ago, saying he didn't want to give kids any ideas about trying this at home.

I am not going to say what the two common ingredients are.

[Arthalion]

I am not going to say what the two common ingredients are.

Salt and muriatic acid probably. I can understand your reluctance to identify the chemicals, but the reality is that there are sites on the Internet that can tell you how to create plastic explosives out of aspirin. With that kind of information floating around, I'm not so worried about a low grade chemical reaction that most of us learned in junior high.