Just gunna get me a dri- AAAH!

[Xarlen]

Alchemist's fire is a liquid that sets fire when reduced to air, right?

What happens if you open the bottle while the stuff's in there?

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

Alchemist's fire is a liquid that catches fire when exposed to air, yes. When you open the bottle, the reaction starts. There is probably a little geyser of fire when the bottle is opened. If you're holding the bottle, you'd probably receive splash damage, and immediately drop the bottle, that falls on the floor and breaks. maybe a save to avoid more splash damage?

The thing i wanna know is, if the substance catches fire when exposed to air, how the heck do you make it?

Maitre D

 

[Xarlen]

In zero G?

How about, how do you bottle it? Maybe it takes some time to perculate into alchemist's fire.

Now, allow me to ponder a spell that makes a flask of Alchemist's fire or vial of acid appear to be a potion. Hmmmm.

 

[Silver Griffon]

Two or more non-volatile components are mixed together in the bottle. Only after they have had a set amount of time to complete their alchemical reactions to one another does the mixture take on its special qualities. By then, the bottle has been sealed. Hopefully

Or maybe the mixture is prepared and sealed and then must be heated, chilled or shaken (butterfingers!) to catalyze the reaction that creates the alchemist's fire.

The real issue is does every bottle come marked with an expiration date?
What about a born on date?

 

[Hawkeye]

Depending upon what the composition of alchemical fire is, it may be mixed under water or under oil, or alchemist may have come up with a cruse, primitive vaccuumm chamber.

Hawkeye

 

[Andion Isurand]

Maybe they glue a thin, waxed sheet of paper within the flask over the first liquid......

....and after they pour in the second liquid and seal the flask, and then shake it to break up the wax paper barrier between the liquids.

 

[Xarlen]

I have to wonder how they keep a bubble of air from being within the alchemist flask's cap.

 

[Seule]

I have to wonder how they keep a bubble of air from being within the alchemist flask's cap.

I'd say very very carefully. That's how I'd do it.

--Seule

 

[Gaiden]

As a graduate student in chemistry - it really is not all that hard. Don't forget, alchemists are supposed to have laboratories and I would presume the appropriate equipment in those laboratores.

It would be as simple as setting up something similar to a vacuum pump that is operated by suction (in that day and age, probably by mouth ).

 

[Darklone]

Easy solution: Flask has two appartments. Medieval fire bombs often were two glasses (nah, they used pots) tied together.