Rainbow Colored Flame(thrower) Science Experiment!

If ever you hear about a high school chemistry lab burning down, it's by way of methanol.

Seriously, pretty much every lab experiment that has a big, fiery death (or injuries) came from methanol. It's a lot of dangerous than this video makes it out to be - particularly because it's highly volatile and has a low flash point. The vapors are nasty and travel way further than you would think.

Of course, methanol does produce way better results in flame tests than would ethanol's yellow flame.

And it burns almost invisibly which can be really, really bad.

Be careful out there, folks, even if you're just blowing the methanol up all over your backyard.