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Chemistry In Fireworks

Everyone is crazy about fireworks, and is eager to use them at the right opportunity. People come from far off places to see the fireworks on Times Square during New Year's Eve, or they go to their local park to watch the Independence Day fireworks. However, have you ever wondered how these fireworks are made? These are made based on chemical reactions of the different types of substances that have explosive properties.

Using the chemical reactions the fireworks are built in such a way so that they behave in the targeted manner when they are burst. This is called chemical engineering.

Creating the fireworks is not an easy process, and it requires the appropriate application of formulae and procedures. There are several things in fireworks that have to be planned. Like from where the fireworks come out, how they burst into stars, or what kinds of lights they emit when they burst. They use oxygen producer and fuel, binders and also colors.

Fireworks mainly use incandescence, and it is a technology that produces light using heat. The heat emitted from the firecrackers causes the chemicals, and the gases they produce to heat up and glow. Some of the metals that are used in fire crackers are magnesium, aluminum, and titanium. Luminescence is another quality that is used in fire works. This quality produces light using other things than heat. It is also called cold light, and can occur during day time at cooler temperatures at normal room temperature.

Color in fireworks is produced due to the chemical properties of the various chemicals used in them. For example, sulfur produces blue light when it is burned. The intenseness of the blue color can be varied by either diluting it or making it concentrated.

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