Pasted stars

Pasting is peculiar to Japanese firework manufacture. Stars are allowed to grow into a spherical shape by sprinkling the powder of a composition on to core grains. This process is popularly applied for the manufacture of colour changing stars used for the Warimono shells Chrysanthemum. In Japan maximum effort is made in the production of stars of this kind. 

The manufacture of good round stars is the first condition of the manufacture of good shells. What is a good star The star which burns out quickly, shows quite strong end brightness, has a heavy core, produces a straight trajectory and which has small deviation in grain size, is best. 

Cut stars are best for the core ecause they can produce a high end brightness, moreover the burning rate of cut stars is generally large. However the manufacture of cut stars is considerably troublesome and for the sake of efficiency in operation, other kind of cores e.g., rape-seeds, sand grains, immature ears, corn, rice corns etc. are used. 

When the cores are too small, the star do not give a high enough light intensity at the end and they are enlarged with plaster if necessary. 

To increase the weight of a core a case shot is used by some manufacturers. 

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Here is a description of the method of pasting stars, using water, and commencing with cubic cut stars. First prepare a slurry with water from the same composition as the cut stars of the core. The slurry is called Toro, The viscosity of the Toro is important at first the viscosity... 

V/hen drying a wet composition in the form of powder, grains, pasted stars etc, place the container on the rack, spread a sheet of kraft paper on the container and place the wet composition on the paper and spread the material uniformly. In the sun stir the composition gently at intervals. VAien the composition is perfectly dried, pack the composition with the kraft paper,making a note on it of the name of the composition, the date, the name of the worker etc. and store it. For kraft paper we sometimes use paper from unbound waste cement bags v/hich is quite cheap and strong. 

Pasted stars must be quickly placed in the sunshine to prevent the v/ater from soaking into the stars. Accordingly in many firev/ork factories the drying area is placed near the pasting room. It is not a- very safe thing to do, but it cannot be avoided. 

Drying in this v/ay is quite slow, and is not suitable for drying material which contains a large amount of water, for drying large pieces or for drying v/hen the door needs to be frequently opened e.g. pasted shell or pasted stars. However it is suitable for compositions which contain small amounts of moisture and for pieces which do not have to be completed rapidly. 

Pasted stars Pasted shells Sensitive compositions... 

With the multifunctional linking strategy either homo- or heterofunctional linking agents can be employed. The homo-approach was widely used in the past for the synthesis of well-defined //-stars with predetermined number and molecular characteristics of arms [163]. New applications of these approaches have been recently reported for the synthesis of A2B, A3B and A2B2 type //-stars. 

It is also interesting to note that solar metallicities are reported for z=2, e.g. [22], and that disks of old stars have been found at redshifts as high as z=2.5, see e.g. [23]. These types of findings indicate that indeed the formation of the thick disk in our galaxy might have happened well in the past. 

The existence and distribution of the chemical elements and their isotopes is a consequence of nuclear processes that have taken place in the past in the Big Bang and subsequently in stars and in the interstellar medium (ISM) where they are still ongoing. These processes are studied theoretically, experimentally and obser-vationally. Theories of cosmology, stellar evolution and interstellar processes are involved, as are laboratory investigations of nuclear and particle physics, cosmo-chemical studies of elemental and isotopic abundances in the Earth and meteorites and astronomical observations of the physical nature and chemical composition of stars, galaxies and the interstellar medium. 

Unlike the age-abundance relation, the distribution function of stellar abundances of primary elements is independent of past rates of star formation as long as instantaneous recycling holds, and this makes it a potentially powerful clue to the evolutionary histories of stellar populations. 

Alternatively, 6Li in low-metallicity stars could be the result ol 4Hc(3Hc, p) reactions in stellar flares, analogous to effects found in some energetic solar flares (Tatischeff Thibaud 2007). In this case there is expected to be real scatter in the 6Li plateau, due to variations in (present or past) stellar rotation speed. 

In eons past, she says, before the current turning of the zodiac, in Mu, when even Atlantis was a dream unborn, there came to the green and sapphire Earth from the sphere of the Morning Star, Great Ones— Lords of Light—to initiate consciousness within embryonic humanity. ... 

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