RE: Tracer

In the 60's and 70's the Chicom tracer was indeed Green.

In fact differently manufactured tracer is of different colors. I've
seen
Green, Red and Yellow/white....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Barclay of the Clan Barclay [mailto:kaladorn@home.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2000 3:55 PM
> To: GZG List
> Subject: Tracer
> 
> 
> Someone (Brendan) said all tracer was the same colour.... I 
> dunno about
> that. Though I can't impute your logic (Tracers, AFAIK, use 
> phosphorus,
> and all phosphorus should be about the same shade of
> yellowy-whitey-orange), I have seen SFX on TV shows for 
> tracer that were
> green... and they weren't CGI. Some sort of projectile that 
> looked like
> a tracer, but with a greenish tinge. I'm actually sure 
> phosphorus isn't
> the only chemical that will react with air so I presume other options
> would be possible.... I just don't imagine common. It'd depend on what
> you had at hand I'd guess.
> 
> I'm not even going to try to bring this OT by asking what 
> colour tracer
> is in 2183. That'd be too feeble. I'll just accept this as a brief OT
> diversion and return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
> 
> Tom B
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