Fireworks are widely used in every function, events, weddings in all over the world. The fireworks are the way of express the happiness and the celebration. The various types crackers and fireworks used worldwide, in India the Diwali festival is incomplete without the fireworks. In other countries on New year celebration fireworks are used, Christmas celebration and other events. This fireworks made up of different chemical substances which are highly flammable and the additional chemicals used to provide color effect when they are fired. Today we are going to know about the science behind the fireworks.

 


The Aerial firework is one of the type of fireworks which is designed to fire in the sky, when it burns that time it goes in the sky and makes the colorful fire. The firework is nothing but the chemical reaction when it comes in the contact with the fire, when we provides the heat to the crackers that time the energy will be generated which is also called as the activation energy. The activation energy provides the kick start to the chemical reaction present in the cracker.

 

The crackers releases the different gases at the time of burning, in which the carbon monoxide, nitrogen, carbon dioxide gases are present. The different colors produced by the firework having the chemistry behind it, the metal crush is present in the crackers is responsible for the different colors. Barium salts and Copper produces the green and blue color in the sky, to produce the red color in  the sky we need to mix the strontium or calcium.

 

We need the cardboard case to fill the chemical mixture which produces the kinetic energy at the time of burning. We need to very careful at the time of making the firework as well as the handle the fireworks. The guidance of the elder person is important in case of the children.