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  2. Pyrotechnics - Wikipedia

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    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. M-80 (explosive) - Wikipedia

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    Later, M-80s were manufactured as consumer fireworks made from a small cardboard tube, often red, approximately 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (3.8 cm) long and 9 ⁄ 16 inch (1.4 cm) inside diameter, with a fuse coming out of the side; this type of fuse is commonly known as cannon fuse or Visco fuse, after a company responsible for standardizing the product.

  5. Flash powder - Wikipedia

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    2 kno 3 + 4 al + s → k 2 s + n 2 + 2 al 2 o 3 The composition is approximately 59% KNO 3 : 31.6% Al : 9.4% S by weight for the reactants of the above stoichiometrically balanced equation. For best results, "German Dark" aluminum should be used, with air float sulfur, and finely ball milled pure potassium nitrate.

  6. 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.

  7. Fireworks - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Category:Types of fireworks - Wikipedia

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  9. Firecracker - Wikipedia

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    Chinese firecracker roll being set off Large flower cracker set off at night Firecrackers set off in Sibu, Malaysia, to celebrate Chinese New Year. A firecracker (cracker, noise maker, banger [1]) is a small explosive device primarily designed to produce a large amount of noise, especially in the form of a loud bang, usually for celebration or entertainment; any visual effect is incidental to ...