I was remembering my grade-school chemistry sets…and I recall that there was always a bottle of this stuff. I remember that this powder is the dired spores of the clubmoss plant. What is it used for?
The spores themselves are small and light and pointy. They form a good and highly flammable aerosol. They also do some pretty neat stuff when exposed to static electricity.
I’m sure the experiment you were supposed to do with it involved building up a static charge on a pane of glass, sprinkling the spores evenly on the surface, and then discharging the pane by tapping it with a nail. The spores form a Lichtenberg figure.
You probably just poured some in a straw and blew them at a candle for a flamethrower effect.
I was going to say that mixed with Thiotimoline, it induces memory loss of future events but I decided not to.
This page mentions uses for stage magic.
You use it as a poor substitute for Torgo’s Executive Powder, why do you ask?
Hmm… I may be misremembering, but I think that there’s something in the Diane Duane young wizard books, (‘A wizard alone’ maybe?) about the little sister using that stuff to make a model volcano with. A model of Olympus Mons on mars, actually.
When ingested or applied topically, it turns your feet into paws.
It helps you stay awake during boring werewolf lectures.
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I am the Great And Powerful Oz!!!
You can use lycopodium power to determine the size of a fatty acid molecule.
get a large tray with water in it, allow to settle. Dust with lycopodium powder - this will form a scum on the water surface. Now drop a single drop of oleic acid into the centre of the water. A single layer disk of oleic acid will form on the water, pushing the lycopodium powder aside, defining the edges of the disk. Measure the disk size when stable. Figure out how many ml oleic acid in a single drop, get the atomic weight of oleic acid, use some basic math and you can work out how big the oleic acid molecules are.
Did this in 3rd Form (13-ish).
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