Burns
Burns noun - Celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796).
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The trick is that isopropanol burns with a bright but not particularly hot flame, and the water keeps the paper itself below its ignition temperature.
Source: Money to Burn - Burns recalls performing this trick with a single shot pistol - firing, manually loading a bullet and powder into the muzzle, cocking the hammer, and firing again while the victim dances obligingly.
Source: Bullet Dancing -
Burns attempts to use this trick to escape a tableful of stockholders — however, being ludicrously old and not very fast-moving, he's still fumbling with the door-handle when the smoke clears...
Source: Smoke Out
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