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Colors, sparks, booms and whistles all require different pyrotechnic recipes. chensiyuan/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA Paul E.
There are hundreds of chemical formulas — or pyrotechnic recipes — for fireworks. These are still based off an ancient ...
INDIANA— With the Fourth of July around the corner, have you ever wondered what makes fireworks boom, sparkle, and glow in ...
Answer: That would be magnesium. Magnesium gets extremely hot when it reacts with oxygen in the air. Magnesium has 2 ...
The annual celebration of our Independence Day will dazzle the skies but will come with more sizzling heat with air quality concerns on the rise.
Today's Fourth of July guidelines aren't as strict as once outlined, though, and vary by state—and in some instances, by ...