Black smoke stars

Black smoke stars Black dragon Black v/illow... 

The black dragon composition is pressed into a tin tube and primed with a small igniting star and a piece of black match. The black willow is used in the form of cut stars The anthracene is somewhat expensive, and half the quantity can be replaced by naphthalene v/ith the same effect. There are three requirements for black smoke stars producing pretty smoke no remaining fire and safety in manufacturing and handling. 

The light of the flare is rather pale and the smoke lines are yellow, but we don t sense the colours, merely the contrast between the brilliancies rather like a black and white drawing. Another of the extremes may be the "Flower in the Sunset", which is a smoke flower with red stars of high brilliancy as the pistils. In this case only the red of the pistils meikes a deep impression, and any coloured smoke red, yellow, green, blue or violet can serve as petals because it has only an auxiliary effect against the pistils. 

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