Having a garden clear out .. and burning scrub,and a pile of wood one piece of which I found sometime ago washed up at the beach… it was just an interesting shape so I took it home….which I now think was covered in copper.

The flame from the fire was blue..

A quick google search reveals that it prob was copper.

Will I die? Is the soil safe ?

thought copper was green?

anyway, to answer your questions, ‘yes’, and ‘probably’

Definitely and I would think so.

Many people who have burnt things have died. Statistics are not on your side here…

It’s a little known fact that burning copper opens a portal to the netherworld.

will it not be salt making the flame go blue?

will it not be salt making the flame go blue?

Nope. Unfortunately for the OP jonnyboi is correct. I’d be expecting a demon infestation any day now. They’ll play havoc with your lawn. We’ve all been there 😐

highly unlikely I’d have thought that your garden bonfire temperature will ‘burn’ copper as copper is pretty damn stable.

At most, and the fire will need to be hot to do it, you’ll have melted it and once it’s cooled will have an interesting garden ornament in the ash. It won’t be dissolving appreciably into the watercourse or anything where it can have any real harm, would be my opinion.

Copper (salts) colour a flame bluey-green typically (copper (I) is blue, but that’s not the usual oxidation state of copper); several others do have blue flames but of these the more suspect would be I think lead.

In respect of jonnyboi – it’s boron that does that. Copper summons up dancing nymphs with mead and insatiable appetites for lust. Where did you say you lived again?

With the OP having burnt a bit of driftwood we are now living in the End Of Times.

Time to loot your LBS and lay waste those that drop litter.

And play bad music on the radio in the office.

The middle class IT workers may fall, but they are going down in flames of GLORY!

I suggest you Ask Nick!

The middle class IT workers may fall, but they are going down in flames of GLORY!

It might be, there could be a typo and he actually burnt a copper or worse a cooper!

As above with a melting point of 1,085c and boiling of 2,562c I think we are either safe or the OP might be working on home made nuclear fusion. Glad I got extra bread and milk in.

It will be tanalised wood, which burns with a bluey-green flame. I’ve just found this on the web:

“Arsenic has been banned for tanalising in Europe since 2006, although the current tanalising process has been found to be less effective without the arsenic content. The replacement process – Tanalised E – uses copper and triazole biocides – an organic anti-fungal treatment commonly used to protect food crops.

NEVER burn any kind of tanalised timber such as old painted timber or boards, which contain formaldehyde resins (i.e. most plywoods, chipboard, and MDF). Tanalised E may be burned in approved industrial incinerators only, but should not be burned in open fires or home wood burners.”

Burnt copper, what kind of furnace do you own?

:^)))

Oh I do love Singletrackworld..

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OP has summoned the God of Hell Fire, and he brings you – fire.

In summary:

The copper won’t kill you but the wood you’re using to heat it up will.

Did anyone else think this thread title was from ‘Rogers Profanisaurus?’

No? Just me then? (Sigh)

Northwind
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I was gutted when I found out the thread wasn’t about being Mistborn!

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I wondered how long that would take to come up- didn’t think top 20 posts. But somehow not surprised it was you NW.

Also, strictly speaking, only from them burning tin….

Oh gawd, nerd thread hijack.

In my defence a friend bought me the book….

I also misread the thread title, and thought that this was finally it. You were kicking off the glorious revolution with a bit of this…..

How frightfully disappointing 😥

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But somehow not surprised it was you NW.

Well that’s not good.