What's in Those 4th of July Fireworks, Anyway?


	What's in Those 4th of July Fireworks, Anyway?

chestnut501

7-4-2009 7:10 PM

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holidays, celebrations, pyrotecnics, explosives, compounds, chemicals, dangers

chestnut501 says:

The dazzling displays owe their colors to traces of metal compounds: strontium for red, aluminum or magnesium for white, copper for blue and barium for green.

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7-4-2009 8:06 PM

The Infowarrior

Spewing yet more poison into atmosphere.

BTW, Happy Birthday America!!

7-4-2009 8:18 PM

shaor

Happy 4th chestnut, and america

7-4-2009 10:47 PM

chestnut501

Happy 4th Everyone!!

7-5-2009 9:52 AM

bookchick49

I think this was the first 4th of July celebration that I noticed oodles of smoke from the firework display. Maybe because there wasn't much wind and the mosquitos were thick! The smell and smoke just lingered and drove us back in the house to leave the skeeters with it.

7-8-2009 8:47 AM

mountainpalm

Hmmmmmmmmmmm Sounds very much like the
compounds retrieved from the "CHEMTRAILS" that have been increasing in our beauitful skies.

Could there be some underlying reason .........besides the COLORS!

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