Make a Flame That Does Not Burn

This is a trick that will make your audience believe your cash will not burn.

Steps

1. Prepare a solution of one part alcohol, one part water and little table salt. Give the solution a magical-sounding name. Do not allow your audience to see the ingredients. Do not leave the solution open long enough to evaporate the alcohol.
2. Soak a dollar in the solution.
3. Hold the wet dollar up with metal tongs. Keep away from the bowl of solution.
4. Light the solution that is on the dollar.
5. The alcohol will ignite. The water will stay in the paper of the dollar protecting it from the flame.

Tips

• The salt in the solution will cause the normally blue alcohol flame to burn yellow. This simulates the appearance of burning paper.
• Did you know that alcohol-based hand sanitizers are very flammable? ...and burn slower than liquid alcohol? Add a touch of salt to make flames yellow.
• Be sure that entire bill is wet. Any dry spot may scorch and burn.
• If you are confident, use larger bills, such as a twenty or one-hundred dollar bill.
• This trick can be used with almost any paper. Make three paper dolls and tell the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

Warnings

• Be careful with flames. Keep a fire extinguisher or a basin of water nearby.
• Don't be scared. If done correctly, nothing bad will happen.

Things You'll Need

• Paper money, cash
• Rubbing alcohol
• Water
• Plain salt
• Bowl
• Metal tongs
• Lighter
• Extinguisher

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