The explosive science behind fireworks – BBC News
The explosive science behind fireworks – BBC News When you go to the biggest display imaginable, we just have a few rocket the chemistry behind it. Surprisingly, so you will have a bottom, but I provide oxygen to the fireworks in the ass, doing its thing, battles and white and silver Starburst effect, things like aluminium and magnesium metal when they burn bright, white or silver flame. And if you want it from color and you guys., When you burn them, they will get you different, colors sodium. If we just shipped and little and hope for the best, we would have got a particular good firework. So it’s that controlled explosion, cowhide Occasions like Bonfire Night, New Years Eve, Diwali and the Fourth of July weekend are marked by fireworks displays every year.
But the flare and skill of fireworks today wouldn’t exist, without some simple, but clever, chemistry.
So how do fireworks work exactly? How are they made – and how do they get their different colours?
Dr Joanna Buckley invited the BBC to the chemistry laboratories at the University of Sheffield to take a closer look at the science behind fireworks.
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