Each color works the same way. As different elements ignite they release different wavelengths of light which translate as different colors. Not all colors of fireworks are equally easy to create.

You see, to make fireworks, you need four basic components: Fuel, usually gunpowder, a compound that produces color, a fuse, and glue to hold it all together. You mix this stuff up into what's ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took ...

Displays are created in "colour sequence" with a myriad of colours and effects and barrages and cakes - essentially fireworks displaying almost simultaneously - adding the the overall effect.

A firework is an icon of synergism, in which the end result is greater than the individual effects. Yet where most of us see the whole—the brilliant light and vivid color of a successful burst ...