Highway flare

Eor example, street lamps use the emissions from excited sodium atoms, the dazzling colors of a fireworks display come from photons emitted by metal ions in excited states, and the red light in highway flares often comes from excited Sr ions. 

Fuses of all kinds are best lit with the material used to ignite highway flares. This is because matches often go out or the Militant s hands are shaking so badly he drops the match into his fly. 

Flare igniter is gotten from highway flares you can buy from any auto supply or surplus store for as little as. 15 each. The black igniting core is dug out, crumbled and dissolved with carbon tetrachloride, bought at any auto supply store. 

Powdered highway flare igniter can be substituted for the potassium chlorate-sugar mixture. It is over half potassium chlorate and is simpler. In fact, if the plastic straw is pushed over a fuse coated with flare Igniter, the fuse needs no other igniter. 

The potassium permanganate is ground to a powder and mixed with the same amount of fuse powder or the highway flare igniter. Got-... 

Fuses of all kinds are best lit with the material used to ignite highway flares. 

The reaction of potassium perchlorate and sulfur in these highway flares produces a spontaneous release of energy as heat and light. The bright red color comes from the emission of light by strontium in the form of strontium nitrate mixed with the other substances. Chemists have learned how to control and manage the energy from chemical reactions and make it do useful work. 

To set off the bullet you ll need some highway flare igniter. (See IGNITERS, page 7 and 8 for fuses and the flare igniter). Since carbon tetrachloride is now almost universally banned, you ll probably have to break up the flare igniter and soak it in its own volume of water overnight. 

At the end of World War I, four million smoke candles (pots) existed in the inventory. The smoke candle usually consisted of a 5-lb tin canister (much like the old kitchen flour canister) with a screw lid. An igniting device like that found on a highway flare was immediately under the lid. The contents were diphenylaminochlorarsine (DM Adamsite) or diphe-nylchlorarsine (DA). Larger smoke pots, looking like a very small wood stove, also existed. 

A simple example may include a highway flare, a pyrotechnic substance encased in a paper tube on one end of which is an igniting composition which is struck to initiate the pyrotechnic. On the other end is a spike which is stuck into the ground holding the flare vertical as it bums. Other flares include... 

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