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To be quite honest, it will take an entire sheet of tightly crumbled newspaper around 3 seconds to burn. Laying flat, it should take about 7 seconds.

Good luck... don't hurt yourself...

Thank you. What I'm trying to do is roll up a newspaper sheet and say that its a smoke bomb saturated with ammonium nitrate, (although its not, its just a regular newspaper) and then light it with a match and then cut to a huge explosion (this is a video) and pretend like it was a horrible accident gone wrong even though nothing happened. Just sort of a special effect joke.

Quick as anything else that's full of chemicals and has an enormous amount of ink on it.

Quick as anything else that's full of chemicals and has an enormous amount of ink on it.

ammonium nitrate

instead of asking us, you should just do it yourself. knowing the answer before you do the experiment just ruins the whole point of doing the experiment.

So would you say very quickly?

Please tell me where I can easily find that.

instead of asking us, you should just do it yourself. knowing the answer before you do the experiment just ruins the whole point of doing the experiment.

One box of instant cold packs. That will give you more than enough xD

Very, it you lit if while holding it, likely you'd burn yourself.

Pssah I have lite news paper covered in lighter fluid and didn't get burned...Its flammable but so is gasoline in your car as your speed down the highway twisting and turning...BANG...I sometimes play with fire when I go onto my grandpa's ranch...My cousin once threw an aerosol can into it and luckily it didn't explode rather spewed out a steam of fire that lasted like 2 minutes.... flamethrower OOO

it burns pretty fast so you have to have something to put it on or act as a fireplace...oh and if you wear contacts put on glasses or just don't stand look at the flames from a close distance. Occasionally depending on the kind of paper, the smoke will burn your eyes and nose.

@Orion you scare the hell out of me sometimes you know that :|

Saying it it one thing, showing a picture of an concoction of flammable materials being lit is another lolz

I made the video. I'll upload the video to YouTube and give you guys the link so you can see it.