Fireworks Chemistry

Chemistry is in our everyday lives. When we wake up in the morning to when we see fireworks on 4th of july. People everywhere enjoy the fantastic explosions and the beautiful, bright, light displays of fireworks. Although, these spectacles are much more than just a form of entertainment. There is real chemistry packed into every firework. Everyone has complex formulas, and chemicals that react in certain ways with each other. There are about five different chemicals in a firework that work together to make a shape, color, and explosion size. The purpose of this topic is to explain how fireworks relates to chemistry.

How do fireworks relate to chemistry? A firework going off is just a big chemical reaction taking place. There are different chemicals

These chemical reactions all contain carbon, oxygen,potassium,nitrogen, sulfur, and charcoal.Each compound gives off a different color depending on how much heat is received and oxygen released.An easy way to get different color fireworks is to use a bunsen burner. These sodium compounds can also be called metal salts. Some examples are copper and barium gives a bluish green and calcium and strontium can make red fireworks.White contains magnesium, aluminum, and titanium; purple contains copper and strontium, orange has calcium salts, and yellow has sodium salts.Each chemical within each compound can be converted into light, heat, sound or kinetic energy; but when too much heat is given it can make a pollution or a explode on impact. In order to make fireworks you would need gunpowder and a heat source or these chemicals and a flame to ignite it. Gunpowder is a mixture of three substances; potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. Potassium nitrate can be classified as a decomposer and gas production due to the high temperature it heat it gives off when it reacts after touching oxygen. There are many different types of fireworks that form different types of reactions; they are rockets, missiles, flares or firecrackers, candles, and dynamite. The history of fireworks resulted around the chinese in around the 6th century for war purposes. They thought that this substance would be a good source of gas and firepower to their enemies. The most common example of fireworks is dynamite because when the string of dynamite that contains gunpowder is ignited by a flame oxygen is released and electron particles charge up and atoms to expand, then this will cause the product to