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  2. Pyrotechnics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Rocket (firework) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Pyrotechnic composition - Wikipedia

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    Graphite – also used as opacifier in rocket fuels to prevent heat transfer by radiation into lower layers of fuels and avoid the related explosions; Carbon black – produces long lasting fine gold sparks in fireworks, also used as opacifier in rocket fuels; Asphaltum – carbon-based fuel, also used as a binder. Some forms contain ammonia ...

  5. Category:Fireworks - Wikipedia

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  6. Rocket propellant - Wikipedia

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    The rocket is launched using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen cryogenic propellants. Rocket propellant is used as reaction mass ejected from a rocket engine to produce thrust . The energy required can either come from the propellants themselves, as with a chemical rocket , or from an external source, as with ion engines .

  7. Consumer fireworks - Wikipedia

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    Using a punk to light a rocket. Daytime fireworks include most bottle rockets, smoke balls, firecrackers, and other fireworks that emit very little or no light. Some examples of daytime consumer fireworks include: Skyrocket — Launch into the air, sometimes with a high-pitched whistling sound, with a report at the end. Some varieties may emit ...

  8. Environmentally friendly red light flare - Wikipedia

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    However, strontium was identified to be present in the red flares and signaling fireworks available in 2014. Due to these finding, the developers of the environmentally friendly red-light flare concluded that the development of environmentally safer flares was a necessity for users.

  9. Liquid-propellant rocket - Wikipedia

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    The GIRD X rocket was launched on 25 November 1933 and flew to a height of 80 meters. [24] In 1933 GDL and GIRD merged and became the Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII). At RNII Gushko continued the development of liquid propellant rocket engines ОРМ-53 to ОРМ-102, with ORM-65 powering the RP-318 rocket-powered aircraft. [18]