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[Arthur Brown]

Whether acrylic paint - who knows! Paint is an unspecified mixture The colourant chosen for appearance and in this case mixed in an acrylic base.

The whole principle of coloured smoke is an organic dye that sublimes without decomposing when heated in a relatively cool flame.

It is NO use trying to get dyes or pigments to sublime if they will not! Sublimation is a chemical property of the material. Also caution because some dyes will burn and char to other chemicals losing colour and gaining other reactivity -could be irritant or corrosive.

Coloured smoke is NOT white smoke coloured with dye, it is coloured smoke.

Search the forum until you find the posts that give sellers of such dyes. - They will sell to people in small quantities as they sell for adding to aerobatic smoke liquid.


PS ALL smoke dyes STAIN and make mess.

Added; link http://www.keystone-...ColorChart.html


Added better link much later

http://www.dyes.com/...Smoke Dyes.html

Edited by Arthur Brown, 10 August 2008 - 06:49 PM.

[Mumbles]

Perhaps I didn't make it clear earlier, but the powdered acrylic dye would not work in a burning composition. There was some discussion about dispersing a colored powdered chalk, and making smoke. I did not mean to imply that inclusion of powdered acrylic paint would be good in compositions. It is more of a fill a shell with it, and add a small burst charge to the center type of thing.

[Arthur Brown]

In a shell, burst high, powdered paint would be a fine coloured effect when well burst.