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Senko hanabi (線香花火 senkō hanabi, literally: incense-stick fireworks) is a traditional Japanese firework. It is a type of sparkler. Essays about it date back to at least 1927. [1] It is a thin shaft of twisted tissue paper about 20 centimeters long with one end containing a few grains of black powder (gunpowder). [1]
Hanabi (from Japanese 花火, fireworks) is a cooperative card game created by French game designer Antoine Bauza and published in 2010. [1] Players are aware of other players' cards but not their own, and attempt to play a series of cards in a specific order to set off a simulated fireworks show. The types of information that players may give ...
Black snakes are a popular firework in India, which children play with during the festival of Diwali. Though deemed toxic by the Chest Research foundation and Pune University, black snake fireworks are still in use. The objective of the study was to determine which firework produced the most air pollution in India.
Pyrotechnic stars are pellets of pyrotechnic composition which may contain metal powders, salts or other compounds that, when ignited, burn a certain color or make a certain spark effect. They are a part of all projectile-type fireworks. The most common is the aerial shell.
Star-shaped patterns give up star-shaped fireworks, and so on. The timing of what explodes when and with what force can be controlled with precise fuses and thicker wrappings. Even the noise they ...
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 ...
An illustration of a fireworks display from the 1628–1643 edition of the Ming Dynasty novel Jin Ping Mei [2] An etching of the Royal Fireworks display on the Thames, London, England, in 1749 An 18th-century illustration of Chinese fireworks from an English abstract of an account of China by French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville [3] A ...
At least three people are dead and two dozen are injured after a New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu residential neighborhood, officials said. The explosion occurred at a house 3 ...