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    What Does Green Flame On Gas Stoves Mean?

    A green flame on your gas stove indicates that there’s something wrong with the combustion process. After all, the color of the flame depends on the combustion process and what exactly is burning.

    Source: Stovepedia

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      Well, the solution is simple – just fix whatever is causing the flame to turn green.

      Thank you.

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        Also, I liked the part where it asks you consider whether you’d borrowed the range. Who does that?

        “Hey, neighbor, do you have a gas range, I could borrow?”

        “Sure, Bud, it’s there in the garage. Just put it back when you’re done.”

        “Thanks a load! Say, it’s burning green. Did you put copper in the burners?”

        “Yes, I did. Just for you! Breath deeply.”

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          I’ve done tech support. They have to add that part in because yes, somebody did indeed borrow a stove at one point.

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          Little timmy ringing your doorbell and instead of asking for some flour he wants the fucking stove

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        That’s also the color copper burns, but for all the flames to look like that would require a lot of copper mixed in the gas or something disintegrating in the supply line.

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          Or there’s some copper grease used somewhere, or some kind of coating containing copper that should have been removed.

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              Not really, solid copper would need a higher temperature. It could be copper dust if there was some work done on the piping recently. It could also be that this is burning on bottled propane, which can contain some sulfur compounds that react with the copper, making the flames green. Or it could be cleaning agents if it’s recently cleaned. (according to some googling around) I also found this youtube video, but it’s kind of shitty, especially that it’s saying it’s due to acidic cleaner, and rinsing with vinegar should help.

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      Yeah I was gonna say… my first thought was that copper burns green, in various forms… probably not good.

      As the page says, salt+copper can lead to this or basically rusted copper can do this.

      Not good to be breathing, or getting absorbed into food.