d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deM to Mycology@mander.xyz · edit-21 year agoBlue/Green Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood it grows on blue as well.feddit.deimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1193file-text
arrow-up1193imageBlue/Green Elfcup. Thr mycelium leaves the wood it grows on blue as well.feddit.ded3m0nr4v3r@feddit.deM to Mycology@mander.xyz · edit-21 year agomessage-square8fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremx_smith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoIf that wood burns is the flame blue?
minus-squarerisottinopazzesco@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoI don’t think so, as being colored blue at room temperature and burning blue are different things. If you think about it, when you burn colored paper you don’t get a correspondingly colored flame.
minus-squareroguetrick@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThe pigment is an organic molecule so it’d burn the same color as other organic molecules as the fire breaks it down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylindein. Flame color is based on the elements in the flame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test
If that wood burns is the flame blue?
I don’t think so, as being colored blue at room temperature and burning blue are different things. If you think about it, when you burn colored paper you don’t get a correspondingly colored flame.
The pigment is an organic molecule so it’d burn the same color as other organic molecules as the fire breaks it down https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylindein. Flame color is based on the elements in the flame. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test