It probably is mostly corn starch.

Vacuuming flour can end quite badly too

To think I was going to make a flippant comment about a fire at a water park... Isn't that stuff basically coloured corn starch powder? So yah, dust explosion.

Also, if you're spraying that stuff that thick isn't it gonna cause all kinds of respiratory problems regardless of whether it ignites?

Apocalypse Journal, Day 37: It's quiet outside at the moment but Willa heard gunshots when she went down to the stream for water. Am collecting corn starch for our flamethrower. I have first watch tonight. Willa is scared.

That was exactly my reaction. What a waste.

And it's been done so many times and so many better ways. Just calling your corn starch custard and using an in-ground pool doesn't make it any better, just wasteful.

Consumerism as religion.
The market as God.
Genetically modified corn starch as the body.
Genetically modified corn syrup as the blood.
Advertising as revealed truth.

Excellent *parody of our time.

I wish I had this idea when looking at non Newtonian liquids its probably the most obvious application for it really, well aside from filling up swimming pools with corn starch so you can "walk on water".

The aerosolizing theory sounds plausible to me. Lots of things ignite that way, I've personally blown a ball of fire with a mouthful of corn starch and I hear sugar and flour work too. A mouthful of thermite, (as if), would be insane.

Additional safety notices concerning the corn starch fire breathing:
make sure you don't get any of the corn starch into your lungs..blow in a 60-80 degrees angle..first practice with water..and before fire breathing check the wind conditions by looking at how your torch flame moves.


>> ^Eklek

For anyone who was interested like me but didn't want to watch 10 minutes of video, like me, here's a quote from wikipedia who quotes trent reznor:

He's filming a music video where reznor in the video pretends to fall off a building and die in the street.

"There was a scene were I was lying on the ground, appearing to be dead, in a Lodger-esque pose and we had a camera with a big weather balloon filled with helium hooked up to it... the first one we did, we started the film, I was laying on the ground and the ropes that were holding the balloon snapped, the camera just took off into the atmosphere... the camera landed two hundred miles away in a farmer's field somewhere. He finds it and takes it to the police, thinking that it's a surveillance camera for marijuana, they develop the film and think that it's some sort of snuff film of a murder, give it to the FBI and have pathologists looking at the body saying, 'yeah, he's rotting,' (I had corn starch on me, right) 'he's been decomposing for 3 weeks.' You could see the other members of the band walking away and they had these weird outfits on, and they thought it was some kind of gang slaying."

>> ^Crake:
Does this make corn starch "nano"?


I've shaken cornstarch and it's normal, it's only when you add water that it acts weird..............right?

Does this make corn starch "nano"?

Yeah baby, the good stuff. I'm a big fan of glass-filled nylon myself. That and bakelite for nostalga's sake.

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Uh... not that I know of. Usually just ABS, polycarb, ploypro, polystyrene, polyethelene and an assortment of rubbers.


He he.. I said 'rubbers'....

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
How about PLA? The corn-starch stuff, ever worked with that?

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I think my job just got a whole lot more interesting.

How about PLA? The corn-starch stuff, ever worked with that?

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
I think my job just got a whole lot more interesting.

Here are a few more:

How to: http://www.videosift.com/video/1-Cup-Water-15-Cups-Corn-Starch-OOBLECK
Another Experiment:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Non-newtonian-fluid-a-subwoofer-cool-effects

>> ^RedSky:
Anyone got the number of this 'person assistant'? Got a few jobs for her ...

Don't tell me- These jobs for her involve her doing a few jobs for you, am I right? Pervert.

>> ^Video title:
Do Not Try This At Home - Cornstarch and Ellen DeGeneres

Aww. Why can't I try this at home?

I'd like to fill a swimming pool with corn starch and watch unsuspecting people try to dive in.