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  2. How do fireworks — work? - AOL

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    Their colors come from metallic powders: aluminum burns white. Copper gives fireworks a blue color. Copper gives fireworks a blue color. Lithium or strontium powder turns them red.

  3. Pyrotechnic colorant - Wikipedia

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    A pyrotechnic colorant is a chemical compound which causes a flame to burn with a particular color. These are used to create the colors in pyrotechnic compositions like fireworks and colored fires. The color-producing species are usually created from other chemicals during the reaction.

  4. Here's how your Fourth of July fireworks work - AOL

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    The colors that sparkle in the sky are chemical reactions happening right before your eyes. Inside every star is an oxidizing agent, fuel, a certain metal that acts as the color, and a binder that ...

  5. Colored fire - Wikipedia

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    Color enhancers (usually chlorine donors) are frequently added too, the most common of which is polyvinyl chloride. A practical use of colored fire is the flame test , where metal cations are tested by placing the sample in a flame and analyzing the color produced.

  6. The Fourth of July lesson you didn’t know you needed - AOL

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    A fireworks aerial shell is mostly made of gunpowder and small bits of explosive materials known as stars, which give fireworks their color once they explode.

  7. Fireworks - Wikipedia

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    Fireworks shell. Colors in fireworks are usually generated by pyrotechnic stars—usually just called stars—which produce intense light when ignited. Stars contain four basic types of ingredients. A fuel; An oxidizer—a compound that combines with the fuel to produce intense heat; Color-producing salts (when the fuel itself is not the colorant)

  8. 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.

  9. Pyrotechnic composition - Wikipedia

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    A pyrotechnic composition is a substance or mixture of substances designed to produce an effect by heat, light, sound, gas/smoke or a combination of these, as a result of non-detonative self-sustaining exothermic chemical reactions. Pyrotechnic substances do not rely on oxygen from external sources to sustain the reaction.