enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pyrotechnic composition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotechnic_composition

    Used in fireworks to increase flame temperature. Less interference with flame color than aluminium. Magnalium – aluminium-magnesium alloy, more stable and less expensive than magnesium; less reactive than magnesium, easier to ignite than aluminium; Iron – makes gold sparks, frequently used

  3. Flash powder - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_powder

    Some flash powder formulations (those that use single-digit micrometre flake aluminium powder or fine magnesium powder as their fuel) can self-confine and explode in small quantities. This makes flash powder dangerous to handle, as it can cause severe hearing damage and amputation injury even when sitting in the open.

  4. Pyrotechnics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotechnics

    Pyrotechnic gerbs used in the entertainment industry. Pyrotechnics is the science and craft of creating such things as fireworks, safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and other fasteners, parts of automotive airbags, as well as gas-pressure blasting in mining, quarrying, and demolition.

  5. Rocket (firework) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_(firework)

    1.4 Consumer Display Rocket. A rocket is a pyrotechnic firework made out of a paper tube packed with gunpowder that is propelled into the air. Types of rockets include the skyrockets, which have a stick to provide stability during airborne flight; missiles, which instead rotate for stability or are shot out of a tube; and bottle rockets, smaller fireworks – 1½ in (3.8 cm) long, though the ...

  6. Salute (pyrotechnics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute_(pyrotechnics)

    The salute may be fired on the ground (ground salute) or launched from a mortar as a shell (aerial salute). Due to the nature of the effect, large salutes are some of the more hazardous fireworks. Most of the "salutes" are made with flash powder. Flash powder has a fast burn rate, unlike black powder.

  7. M-80 (explosive) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-80_(explosive)

    The operation was by far the largest-known illegal fireworks operation, and the initial blast was heard as far away as 20 miles (32 km) from the site. [17] Both operations were connected to a multi-state illegal fireworks distribution and production ring, and multiple people were eventually sent to prison for their involvement in both incidents.

  8. L.A. to pay $21 million in settlements tied to botched ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/l-pay-21-million-settlements...

    The City Council unanimously approved settlements with more than a dozen residents after the police blew up their South L.A. neighborhood while detonating a cache of fireworks

  9. Pyrotechnic star - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotechnic_star

    They are a part of all projectile-type fireworks. The most common is the aerial shell. When watching this firework, it will launch into the sky, burning a lifting charge. Once the shell has attained proper altitude, due to other mechanisms within the firework, it will ignite the stars.