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Question by jenna
Submitted on 3/13/2004
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What type of simple chemical reaction occurs in fireworks?



Answer by nicholas
Submitted on 3/17/2004
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i don't now

 

Answer by mackenzie
Submitted on 3/19/2004
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maybe u could try looking it up on the net!?
here are the steps if u need them:
1. go to www.yahoo.com (or any other search engine your familiar with)
2. search for "chemical reaction in fireworks" or just "chemical reaction".
3. find a site that looks good
4. there u have it!
~u can also go to www.encyclopedia.com to find some info on chemical reaction~
hope i helped!

 

Answer by Pat Mahoney
Submitted on 3/20/2004
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Explosives DETONATE,fireworks DEFELGRATE.a rapid CONTROLLED expansion of gasses.Look up defelegration.Fireworks consist of 3 ingredients,a FUEL,(charcole,sulfer)a OXIDIZER (potasium clorate,salt peter)and a COLORIZING AGENT(copper sulfate)DEFELGRATEdefelegrationcharcolesulferpotasiumclorate

 

Answer by rob
Submitted on 4/2/2004
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the main reaction in a firework is a redox reaction. as already mentioned, there are 2 or 3 ingredients in a firework. if you know anything about chemistry(which is useful in pyrotechnics), you will probably have heard of reduction and oxidation. i wont go into it now, but reduction is where a chemical loses oxygen, and oxidation is where a chemical gains oxygen. in a firework, one metal oxide loses its oxygen to a more reactive pure metal. this is the boom. then it can be coloured by a metal compound.

 

Answer by ron
Submitted on 5/7/2004
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its an explosion

 

Answer by ron
Submitted on 5/7/2004
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its an explosion

 

Answer by Jacko
Submitted on 6/22/2004
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well done rob

 

Answer by Shelby
Submitted on 9/7/2004
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a redox reaction

 

Answer by fat tom
Submitted on 9/8/2004
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stuff with ham

 

Answer by FlamingYou
Submitted on 9/29/2004
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duh your such a complete idiotic moron


the answer is very simple if you weren't such a retard

 

Answer by csiteen
Submitted on 10/19/2004
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the answers are in the internet find them.

 

Answer by brittani
Submitted on 10/29/2004
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A combustion reaction

 

Answer by animanga
Submitted on 11/7/2004
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rob, you're my hero

 

Answer by normal kid
Submitted on 11/22/2004
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you guys are fags!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Answer by Jewel
Submitted on 1/7/2005
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maybe you can go to www.ask.com and type in:
what type of chemical reactions are in fireworks? and you'll get your answer

 

Answer by bob
Submitted on 1/29/2005
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crap blows up!

 

Answer by me
Submitted on 2/2/2005
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umm im stupid i have no idea.

 

Answer by Bess
Submitted on 2/2/2005
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Cumbustion

 

Answer by danae alston
Submitted on 2/10/2005
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i don't know!!i really need the answer though:)

 

Answer by joe
Submitted on 2/11/2005
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it is when you sneeze

 

Answer by the man
Submitted on 3/1/2005
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i must say i dont no much about this but i am doing a HUGE project on it thanks a bunch and it is due today.

 

Answer by erica
Submitted on 3/24/2005
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Chemical reactions are written down as equations. 2 Mg+ O2 2 MgO. Here Magnisium combines with Oxygen.  

 

Answer by Eliz
Submitted on 4/2/2005
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When the gun powder at the bottom of the rocket is lit, it lifts the rocket off the ground and into the air. When the rocket reaches it's Max. height a second fuse burns, setting the the chemical in the rocket on fire. A these chemicals burn they produce smoke, color bursts,loud noises or a combination of these things.

The table below lists some of the chemicals and the effects they produce when combined in a rocket.

Element           Special Effect

Strontium            red color
barium                green color
Copper               blue color  
Sodium               yellow color
Magnesium or aluminum      white color
potassium or sodium   whistling sound
potassium & sulfur        white smoke

 

Answer by LaLa
Submitted on 5/2/2005
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i don't even know

 

Answer by The J
Submitted on 8/22/2005
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Fireworks are freakin awesome!

 

Answer by Curtis
Submitted on 10/5/2005
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CO2+h2O=co2h2o

 

Answer by Seco
Submitted on 10/22/2005
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its combustion

 

Answer by tyler
Submitted on 10/28/2005
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its an eruptian

 

Answer by ur mom
Submitted on 11/3/2005
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your mom was a chemical reaction in bed the other night

 

Answer by paperatzi
Submitted on 11/16/2005
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a three footed chineese man

 

Answer by busta
Submitted on 11/17/2005
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u guys r butt-dumplings

 

Answer by marifany Martilio
Submitted on 11/21/2005
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No one cares!!!! Their fireworks!!! Just lookat the preetty colors!!!!

 

Answer by Sir.Kyo Demon
Submitted on 2/7/2006
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The better question is,how to make the best simple firework? The best thing you can make with house hold materials Napalm. It is a type of bomb that the military uses to burn whatever thy want. The materials in this simple bomb is laundry detergent(powder form) and gasoline.

 

Answer by rae
Submitted on 3/6/2006
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well done everyone, you have proven that stupidity is not bad, all the time!

 

Answer by lil_jenn_15
Submitted on 3/9/2006
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um well i really dont know except its a redox reaction and that its explosive and well yeah sorry babes but i cant fiqure it out except for them answers!!!!!!!

 

Answer by lol my answer that makes sense
Submitted on 3/19/2006
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it has the expansion of deflageration, this means that it can be flighted with the same oppurtunity and then. hehe

 

Answer by Eli
Submitted on 3/21/2006
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First, gun powder burns at the bottom of the fireworks cylinder.  A mix of heat and gas will cause the explosion which hurtles the fireworks shell as high as 1,000 feet into the air.  In regard to the fuse it simultaneously lights two secondary fuses – a fast-acting side fuse that ignites the lift charge and a time-delay fuse buried inside of the shell that leads from top to the bottom to the heart of the fireworks.  Also in fireworks there is something which is called black powder which explodes at a relatively slow rate, making it a “low explosive.”  Also within the fireworks are things called colored stars which, when ignited, stars create the breath-taking colors and lights.  Ingredients like black powder are mixed with the coloring agents to make a doughy substance that are cut into half inch cubes, the dried and placed in the fireworks.  As the fireworks shoot through the air, the time delay fuse continues burning from top to bottom, low enough to ignite the black powder and the colored stars.  Stars are also contained in separate cardboard compartments within the third break.  Each break has its own bursting charge which lights and throws out the stars over a wide area of the night sky.

 

Answer by joe
Submitted on 4/2/2006
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ezplode

 

Answer by haley
Submitted on 4/7/2006
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fireworks are ment to go up jordans butt.

 

Answer by Mr PINEAPPLE
Submitted on 4/10/2006
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HIS NAME IS RON!!

 

Answer by captain kinks..
Submitted on 4/24/2006
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it is something that i have to study for my science assignment.. i hate science! damn!
xxx love ma friends xxx
Happy Birthday Anna! mwahzz

 

Answer by paul wall
Submitted on 5/4/2006
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it's an boom boom boom boom

 

Answer by bobby
Submitted on 5/5/2006
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i dont rewally cair wat the answer is

 

Answer by andre
Submitted on 5/6/2006
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ur all wrong its a huge fun explosion who doesent like em

 

Answer by lizo
Submitted on 5/8/2006
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fireworks are wierd

 

Answer by thatguy
Submitted on 5/15/2006
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you guys are really smart

"i dont know"
"search it on yahoo"
"DEFELGRATEdefelegrationcharcolesulferpotasiumclorate"???


 

Answer by Sarah M.
Submitted on 9/14/2006
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The fireworks cause a simple chemical reaction by the "black powder" and the stars used in fireworks. When they explode it.. whatever its hard to explain.

 

Answer by holly johnson
Submitted on 9/14/2006
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who cares!! just kidding an explosion and other stuff i don't know

 

Answer by Kallie
Submitted on 9/18/2006
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Redox reaction

 

Answer by Animeinia
Submitted on 9/19/2006
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The shell is launched from a mortar. The mortar might be a short, steel pipe with a lifting charge of black powder that explodes in the pipe to launch the shell. When the lifting charge fires to launch the shell, it lights the shell's fuse. The shell's fuse burns while the shell rises to its correct altitude, and then ignites the bursting charge so it explodes.

 

Answer by Jim
Submitted on 9/21/2006
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-.- it also requires the person to hold a turtle in one hand and sing "Yankee Doodle"!

 

Answer by KRISTEN
Submitted on 9/28/2006
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ITS A REDBOX  REACTION IN A FIREWORK

 

Answer by KRISTEN
Submitted on 9/28/2006
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ITS A REDBOX  REACTION IN A FIREWORK.

 

Answer by LilShorty
Submitted on 9/28/2006
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This was very good!!!

 

Answer by samanrha
Submitted on 10/18/2006
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no flippin clue!

 

Answer by nick
Submitted on 10/18/2006
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its me

 

Answer by CHICHI
Submitted on 10/18/2006
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HEY  WATS UP DUDE IM A BOI LIVING N CHINA

 

Answer by boobie
Submitted on 10/18/2006
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its a combustion reaction

 

Answer by Sweet4rmdaBurg
Submitted on 11/9/2006
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A Very Loud Noise caused by the ingredients in a fireworks: fuel, Oxidizer, Defelgrate.

 

Answer by d
Submitted on 12/7/2006
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nice people i just found that out

 

Answer by Nicki
Submitted on 12/10/2006
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Redox Reaction, simple as that!

 

Answer by bob
Submitted on 1/20/2007
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a combustion reaction

 

Answer by gboob
Submitted on 1/26/2007
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u r gay

 

Answer by Bob
Submitted on 2/9/2007
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it go boom!

 

Answer by kendra
Submitted on 2/12/2007
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okay rob. but that's not very simple...

 

Answer by yo
Submitted on 2/23/2007
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in the air

 

Answer by dork face
Submitted on 3/2/2007
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poooooooop ball

 

Answer by butthead
Submitted on 3/9/2007
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u guys are losers and have no lives u live in your moms bacement and read about fireworks all day losers

 

Answer by augustbug93
Submitted on 3/11/2007
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The Chemical reaction is that the chemicals mix, and act violently against eachother!

DUH!

 

Answer by kat
Submitted on 3/15/2007
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fuels are mixed with oxidisers to produce explosions. oxidisers used in rockets include hydrogen peroxide and dinitrogen tetroxide. the volume of the reactants are very small. the products are mainly hot gases that are produced suddenly in a confined space. the rapid increase in pressure leads to an explosion.

 

Answer by homiebro for yo    bra
Submitted on 4/5/2007
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Pyrotechnics is the manufacture of fireworks.   Pyrotechnics also deals with modern aviation and spaceflight.  Making fireworks requires chemicals with very specific properties and characteristics in specific proportions to create the perfect effect.
Sparklers are made with a paper tube.  It uses charcoal and sulfur as fuel, also gunpowder. There’s also a binder that is sugar or starch.  When mixed with water, these chemicals form slurry that can be coated on wire or poured into a tube.  Once it dries it is now a sparkler.  The sparkler burns from one end to the other and because the fuel and oxidizer, and some other chemicals are proportioned, the sparkler burns slowly instead of exploding like a firecracker.  There are metal filings that fly off as bright sparks while burning.
There are two main groups of light emitters: solid state emitters and gas phase emitters.  Fireworks usually have aluminum, iron, steel, zinc, or magnesium dust, which create bright sparks.  There are many different chemicals that can be added to make different colors shines.  The different colors created in fireworks result from different compounds with different wavelengths.  Some examples are: red from strontium salts, lithium salts lithium carbonate, Li2CO3 = deep red  strontium carbonate, SrCO3 = bright red, with wavelength:650 nm;  orange from calcium salts calcium chloride, with wavelength:670; yellow from sodium salts sodium chloride, NaCl, with wavelength:610-620; green from barium compounds + chlorine producer barium chloride, BaCl2 ,  with wavelength: 590 ; blue from copper compounds + chlorine producer copper(I) chloride, CuCl, with wavelength: 500-535; purple from mixture of strontium (red) and copper (blue) compounds, with wavelength: 420-460; silver from burning aluminum, titanium, or magnesium.
Some common oxidizers and fuels are potassium perchlorate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, strontium nitrate, aluminum and some other metal powders.  Some other commonly used oxidizers are nitrates, which are composed of nitrate ions with metals.  The most common oxidizer is potassium nitrate.  The decomposition reaction of potassium nitrate turns to potassium oxide, nitrogen gas, and oxygen gas.

   Decomposition reactions have a compound as a reactant and a smaller compound or element as the product.  Decomposition is also the opposite of chemical synthesis.
Fireworks provide thrust to power the package into the sky and to ignite each bundle of stars.  Some chemicals used in specific types of fireworks aren’t always used in all types of fireworks like nitrates, which aren’t used in star explosions because their reactions don’t produce high enough temperature to energize the colorful metal salts.  High temperatures of 1700 to 2000°C create more intense colors. Oxidizers are the chlorates which give up all their oxygen during the reaction.


This is another decomposition reaction.

Chlorstes are less stable than nitrates and they can sometimes be detonated by throwing them on the ground.  This is because chlorine normally bonds with 4 oxygen atoms, but it only bonds with 3 so it leaves the chlorine atom unsaturated and reactive. Oxidation by chlorates have much faster detonations than compounds containing nitrate.  Now most manufacturers use perchlorate because its more stable and has more oxygen release.  Perchlorates contain the perchlorate ion (ClO4).  Perchlorates are able to release all four of its oxygen atoms.  Perchlorates aren’t really more stable, but they have more oxygen and have more vigorous reactions then nitrates.


              
The oxygen released by nitrates, chlorates, and perchlorates in the star compartments combines with the reducing agents to produce hot gasses. The most common reducing agents are sulfur and carbon (charcoal), which react with oxygen to produce sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide.



        
These are combination reactions.  Combination reactions have two elements or two compounds as reactants and a single compound as a product.  Similar to chemical synthesis.
   These compositions must be safe and stable in storage.  They must also have the perfect proportions to operate creating the desired effect.  An example is that too much fuel is bad because the carbon particles would take over the red color making it too light.



 

Answer by Duh
Submitted on 4/13/2007
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boom

 

Answer by sarah
Submitted on 4/23/2007
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There is a fuse in side the wick that burns to the "black powder" to create an explosion between the "black powder" and that ignites the colorizing agent and that could be copper or aluminum or a lot of other elements

 

Answer by phyco killer
Submitted on 5/1/2007
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it blows up and kills any one in the line of fire. So make them and DIE mwaaaha mwahhhha

 

Answer by Jordon
Submitted on 5/1/2007
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Fireworks are usually made out of the following items; an oxidizing agent, a reducing agent, a coloring agent, binders and regulators. These this mixed together are what make up the basic fireworks.

 

Answer by Kristin
Submitted on 5/3/2007
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the chemical reaction within a firework is a combustion reaction

 

Answer by angelface
Submitted on 5/4/2007
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I don't understand

 

Answer by chinaa.
Submitted on 5/17/2007
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acid=]

 

Answer by Vinayaka
Submitted on 6/3/2007
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a combustion reaction

 

Answer by silky silkjar
Submitted on 6/5/2007
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well i dont relic know Havana

 

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