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Common fireworks are paper or cardboard tubes containing combinations of gunpowder, flash powder, and propellants. Larger pyrotechnics use metal mortars and other containers, and some displays used compressed air for launching.

There are many chemicals also used to provide various levels of burning or exploding. Some create colored stars, bangs and reports, and crackling. Chemicals used include aluminum, ammonium percholorate calcium carbonate carbon, copper, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium (many compunds) strontium, sulphur, titanium, and more.

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The stuff you'd use to make a firework at home are pretty much what a manufacturer would use. There is a link below, and a lot of serious reading is there or linked to that page. Help youself to the knowledge. But use is with utmost caution. Property damage, injury and death are reported every year because of accident in the manufacture or use of pyrotechnics. Please be careful. Please.

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These metals produce different colors:

Red: Lithium or Strontium

Orange: Calcium

Yellow: Sodium

Green: Barium

Blue: Copper Halides

Purple: Potassium or Strontium and Copper

Gold: Charcoal, Iron or Lampblack

White: Titanium, Aluminum or Magnesium powders

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks#Types_of_effects

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Fireworks contain a fuel (usually sulfur), and oxidizer (usually a nitrate chlorate, or perchlorate such as potassium nitrate), and some metal or metal salt to give color. Copper salts give a blue flame, strontium salts give a red flame and so on.

The exact composition depends on the specific firework.

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Fireworks take a special type of chemist, a pyrotechnic. To make it simple, the pretty colors you see when the firework explodes are actually different salts, or crystallized elements or compounds. For example, Magnesium Chloride burns bright white, Sodium Chloride burns bright yellow-orange, Lithium Chloride burns red, the list goes on. Notice that each one has Chloride in it (Cl2), which is what makes the compound a salt. There's also chemistry involved in the time it takes to burn thru the black powder that shoots the firework off into the sky, how much pressure the powder has on ignition, how high it will go, and even the shapes the firework makes are all chemistry-related. An interesting thing is, there's a certain compound some firework makers use (hand made only) that is so sensitive and volatile, that if you brush it with a feather, it will explode. Goes to show you, there's alot more to making things go boom.

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i only know one gun powder.

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