Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
Flame Detective Turns Flame Tests into a Chemistry Bench
An offline iPhone and iPad simulator for identifying salts and minerals through flame colours, emission spectra, and guided challenges.
- For
- Chemistry students, science teachers, and rockhounds
- Worth noticing
- The simulator includes contamination from an uncleaned loop and a cobalt-blue filter for sodium glare.
Field notes
The simulator uses a sequence that includes reagent selection, nichrome-loop loading, burner activation, acid cleaning, and optional cobalt-blue filtering. Its reference material reportedly covers 24 metals with detection limits, while the practice section offers 30 unknown samples across three difficulty tiers. The homepage also describes mineral cards based on flame and borax-bead behaviour, plus side-by-side emission spectra and comparisons for commonly confused colours.
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