Silver Wave

Pennants of silver waved and streamed, lazy banners unfurled Sudden splendors of sabres gleamed, lightning javelins were hurled. There in our awe we crouched and saw with our wild, uplifted eyes. Charge and retire the hosts of fire in the battlefield of the skies. 

Figure 4.6 Red chrysanthemum and silver wave shells. (Courtesy of Pains Fireworks Ltd.)...

In the table, (g) and (q) are not yet as popular as others. The (r) called "Silver Wave" is in fact not silver, but looks as if it were mixed with fire particles of various colours red, green, blue etc. 

Silver Wave Stare which stream twinkling fire dust sparks. The sparks consist of not only silver, but also red, blue, yellow etc. 

A,B and C, And silver streams are drawn from the ground to the sky. The second step begins with flowers of silver wave to flash with red pistils of 5 inch shell at A and of 7 inch shell at C, and ends with flowers of amber to red with red pistils of 5 inch shell at A and silver wave to flash with red pistils at B. The third step is filled with various flowers, which continue to the fourth step. The fifth step is all in pause. The programme is arranged so that the display develops from weak to strong excitation according to the ordinary rule. 

Moreover the fire division depends upon the wind velocity, i.e. for a flying star it depends on the velocity of the star. The most representative example is the "Chrysanthemum of Mystery (see 15 2). When we ignite this star on the ground no fire division occurs, but when we fire it through the air we see a lonely kind of fire dust which is caused by the movement of the star. Another good example is the star "silver wave"(see also 15.2). 

On the good side, we can mention the production of fire dust or pine needle-like sparks. The Senko-Hanabi is the most popular one. The "Silver Wave"(see 15 2) also belong to this type. In this case the realgar content considerably helps the Senko-Hanabi phenomenon. The sparks looks like red, green and yellow twinkling stars. 

The above compositions nearly satisfy all the three, but it is quite difficult to ignite them. Therefore in this case of the dragon it is necessary to use an ignition star as a first fire composition and in the case of the black willow stars to coat them first with the silver wave composition(l5 2(3)c) and then with the chrysanthemum 8, 6 and black powder one after another. 

The composition "Silver wave" is used for this effeet(15.2.(2)). Place a quantity of the composition in an aluminium bowl. Knead it well adding water to it in small amounts. Charge some of the composition into a mould and press it with a hand press to form cylindrical star, e.g. 

Silver wave chrysanthemum Potassium nitrate Sulphur Pine charcoal... 

J.J. Dick and D.L. Styrus, Electrical Resistivity of Silver Foils Under Uniaxial Shock-Wave Compression, J. Appl. Phys. 46, 1602-1617 (1975). 

Knall-saure, /. fulminic acid, -silber, n. fulminating silver, -welle, /. explosion wave, shock wave, -zucker, m. (Expl.) nitro-saccharose. -ziinder, m. detonator, -zund-mittel, n. detonating priming, knapp, a. close, tight, narrow scanty exact. Enappe, m. miner. 

Figure 14. Reflectance of a 100 nm thick silver coating enhanced with two quarter-wave Sio2 layers.

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