INSTANTANEOUS FLAME.
Heat together potassium and sulphur, and they will instantly burn very vividly.
Heat a little nitre in a fire-shovel, sprinkle on it flour of sulphur, and it will instantly burn. If iron filings be thrown upon red-hot nitre, they will detonate and burn.
Pound, separately, equal parts of chlorate of potash and lump sugar; mix them, and put upon a plate a small quantity; dip a thread into sulphuric acid, touch the powder with it, and it will burst into a brilliant flame.
Or, put a few grains of chlorate of potash into a table-spoonful of spirit of wine; add one or two drops of sulphuric acid, and the whole will burst into a beautiful flame.