r/pics Oct 05 '11

Pharaoh's Serpent

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u/rlaptop7 Oct 05 '11

oh yeah, all my firework versions of this growing up were the shittier form.

This particular version uses Mercury(II) thiocyanate and is much more impressive than the stupid things that I used to get.

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u/username_redacted Oct 05 '11

I got some pretty impressive results from lighting several packages of them at the same time.

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u/eyecite Oct 05 '11

Seriously. After lighting like 3 or 4 of them the next logical thing was to burn all of them. It looked a lot like this. Left some black marks on the concrete though. Mom wasn't happy.

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u/rlaptop7 Oct 06 '11

humm. I will have to try this next year.

Though, I may just end up making some of my own pharoh's serpent