The rainbow flame demonstration is a regular experiment by teacher Anna Poole. “She’s OK,” said her dad, Dave Saltonstall, a former Daily News reporter who works for City Controller Scott ...

A chemistry demonstration commonly known as the 'rainbow flame' experiment has resulted in a number of serious injuries in classrooms in recent years. In this new video, the American Chemical ...

On Thursday morning, Beacon School teacher Anna Poole was starting the "rainbow experiment" in her 10th grade chemistry class. The demonstration included mineral salts being involved with ...

That's according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, which has called for schools to stop doing the Rainbow Experiment with an open flame and flammable solvents.

The “rainbow experiment” involves burning chemicals in Petri dishes to create multicolored flames. But the project ended in disaster in Poole’s classroom.

A dozen preschool children were injured Tuesday after a science experiment at a Texas school went awry and caused a flash fire that erupted in some of the students’ faces, authorities said. The ...

For this new experiment, they decided they’d go with blue, green, red and standard orange flames to see what they’d look like. They filmed the flames in the dark in 4K at 1,000 frames per second using ...

Poole had been running the “rainbow experiment,” according to the report, placing various nitrates and methanol in four petri dishes and lighting them to create for four different colors of flame.