Firework Facts

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Firework Facts

• By Kim Chung
• Maddie Bliske

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Where fireworks came from

• Legend has it that the Chinese made the first
  fireworks in the 800s, filling bamboo shoots with
  gunpowder and exploding them at the New Year with
  the hope that the sound would scare away evil
  spirits.
• During the 1700s displays became more elaborate
  and were popular with European royalty. French
  king Louis XV ordered extravagant displays of
  fireworks at Versailles, and Russian czar Peter
  the Great put on a five-hour show after the birth
  of his son.
• Meanwhile, in the American colonists thought,
  however, that the origins of fireworks are
  shrouded in smoke the China story is widespread,
  and possibly true, but fireworks may in fact have
  developed in India or the Arab world.

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Shapes and Colors

• COMMON COLORS
• Blue, Copper salts
• Gold, Aluminum,
• magnesium
• Green, Barium salts
• Red, Strontium salts
• White, Aluminum, magnesium
• Yellow, Sodium salts
• Shapes
• The way theyre packed in the shell creates
  the shapes when the firework explodes. Packing
  the stars into the shell differently creates
  different shapes in the final firework explosion

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More Shapes Colors

• Fireworks that send out bright stars snaking
  around in the sky are tiny rockets. The burning
  fuel sends them spinning in all
  directions.Controlled explosions produce shapes
  like palm trees or slithering snakes. Fast
  explosions would be a disappointing sight.
• Firework ForcesSome fireworks are like space
  rockets - burning gases from the fuel shoot out
  the bottom zooming the rocket upwards.

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Even More Shapes

• Some of the most popular shapes are the peony,
  willow, spiral, Chrysanthemum.

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Sounds

• A Catherine Wheel is a trapped rocket. Unable
  to go up it spins round and round spitting out
  fire and sparks.
• Salutes, made with titanium, produce the
  concussion booms at the end of a show. Smaller
  salutes made of flash powder or a titanium
  mixture produce a flash and bang. Whistles are
  tubes that fly across the sky making shrieks and
  whistles. Hammers spin and scream.

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Firework Danger

• In 1999 the U.S Consumer Product Safety
  Commission reported 8,500 firework-related
  emergency-room visitsabout two-thirds of these
  in July. And there's no tally of the countless
  blistered hands, traumatized pets, singed shrubs,
  and melted G.I. Joe dolls. Experts recommend
  leaving the fireworks spectacle to the
  professionals and limiting your flame-tending
  interests to the barbecue.

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