Searching for Starlite

[peterperkins]

This was an interesting program on the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bs7xrl/sea...

Basically an eccentric discovers a wonder heat resistant material and then touts it rounds to wide acclaim, refuses to give up the secret and snuffs it.
The samples he produced for independent testing worked very well, and it even got on tomorrow's world, but he was clearly not the full shilling and took the secret to his grave.
Claimed it was made from household ingredients.

Looking at the stuff 'Starlite' we have all seen bit of strangely melted but not consumed plastic in the embers of a bonfire.
That's where he got his idea, we just never picked up that such stuff might not have burnt because of some transformation that occurred when it was subjected to heat.

I'm sure we must have a reasonable idea nowadays of what he did and what it was made of..

[Beati Dogu]

Yes, I saw that too yesterday. He knew he couldn’t patent it, or the Chinese in particular would just steal it.