Mercury Thiocyanide

This is crazy, ive never seen anything like this before, the you tube footage says alien rock from mars, but thats not true, but it sure does look alien!



At first i thought it was some CGI #, but its really doing that

I bet there are some ATS members here that are more familiar with this...

Apparently this is popular in India....

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[edit on 21-9-2008 by Denied]

Wiki says:
'Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) is a chemical compound. It was formerly used in pyrotechnics for the long snake-like ash Pharaoh's serpent that forms when a pellet of this compound, often with a small amount of a sugar such as glucose added to serve as supplemental fuel, is ignited. This is extremely dangerous because it produces poisonous mercury vapors'

Eeep! mercury vapours!! thats enough to put me off it, cool video though

We used to play with "snakes" all the time when we were kids.

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