Editing Burning Salts (section)

== Demonstration ==

# Prior to the performance, set out the six watch glasses and pour a small amount of each salt onto its own watch glass. Try to keep the salts in color order to improve the effect.
# At the start of the performance, fill the watch glasses 3/4 of the way with ethanol. Let the salts soak for a few minutes in the ethanol. During this time, ask the audience about ways to identify elements from the periodic table.
# Light the ethanol. As the ethanol burns, the salts will start to give color to the flames. As the flames start turning colors, ask the audience to try to identify the metals you used to get the colors before revealing the answers.