Match Meal powder

Display Rocket. It is a rocket used for pyrotechnic display. It may be constructed using a cardboard case with a chamber in the forward end separated by a plug of clay or other material thru which a piece of quick match passes. The chamber is filled with black powder, and colored light compositions shaped in the form of stars, primed with mealed powder. The tail end of the rocket contains a propellant and a guiding stick. When the rocket is shot into the air. and teaches its maximum height, flame from the propellant is conveyed by quick match to the forward section, igniting... 

To Damp Stars.—Stars containing nitrate of strontium must be damped either with lac solution or wax solution anything containing water destroys the color. Niter stars may be damped with gum water, dextrine solution or thin starch. Most other stars with either of the solutions. Crimsons and greens wilt mix with boiled linseed oih but they cannot then be matched, as oil renders meal powder almost imfiammable. With all stars, not a drop more of the solution should be used than is sufficient... 

Hub up the mixture thoroughly In a mortar with just enough boiled oil to make it cohere, and pump it into Homan candle stars the oil will preserve the steel from rusting. For Roman candles or Italian streamers they will be ready at any time for rockets and shells they may bo matched and enveloped, like figure 32. a day or two previously. They form beautiful stars. Or they may be charged in cases, and primed with chlorate meal powder. Or they may be damped with lao solution. 

To Make Quick Match. Quick match is made by immersing lamp-wick in a solution of saltpetre with meal powder, winding it on a frame, and afterwards dusting with meal powder. To 28 ounces cotton, take saltpetre, I pound alcohol, 2 quarts water, 3 quarts solution of isinglass (1 ounce to the... 

Black match may be made conveniently by twisting three or four strands of fine soft cotton twine together, impregnating the resulting cord with a paste made by moistening meal powder with water, wiping... 

Quiok-match. Cotton-wick is I peter and rain-u ater for 1 hour alcoh the mixture while warm, and it is sin minutes. Mealed powder is then ac whole left for 24 hours. The cotton- on a reel, and mealed powder sifted c then dried. 

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