nitrates and chlorates which produce oxygen inside the cracker reducing agents: something like sulphur, which can burn the oxygen present in the firecracker regulators: to ensure the speed and intensity with which a cracker bursts coloring agents: multiple colours appear when a cracker bursts, this...
When striking a match, wait until the sulphur has burned away before exposing the cigar to the flame. Otherwise, you may contaminate the cigar’s flavour. Cedar Spills One of the most traditional ways of lighting a cigar is with long strips of cedar known as “spills”. They can either ...
In many cases the components of a mixture can be separated quite easily, e.g. using a magnet to separate iron filings from a mixture of iron filings (dark grey colour) and sulphur (yellow colour). Note: This is one of a series of simple pages introducing key concepts in introductory che...
Scientists across the country and around the world are trying to find solutions to fossil fuel problems so that there is enough fuel and a healthy environment to sustain human life and activities in the future. The United States Department of Energy is wo...
In the aftermath of the disaster, the agency recorded more than 40,000 dead fish and aquatic animals in the Sulphur Run creek adjacent to the derailment and burn site. While the agency claims that the creek “has not shown any contaminants at levels that exceed health standards since May 1...
A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts; also called a pyrotechnic device. The most common feature of fir...
2:30pm: We drive to Sulphur Point. Rotorua is perched atop some serious geothermal activity, and the pervasive smell of sulphur is everywhere. Here at Sulphur Point it’s overpowering, as we peer at the bubbling mud and laughing gas pools. 3:00pm: We shoot a quick interview with Don ...
Sub-bituminous coal is a lower grade of coal that contains 35–45% carbon. The properties of this type are between those of lignite, the lowest grade of coal,
This book also says that after the sign of the cross (X) in the heavens, there will arise a great wave of religious zeal, which will burn like a flame in the hearts of its new converts. This religion will be the seed of a new Universal Faith for mankind in the years following the...
When striking a match, wait until the sulphur has burned away before exposing the cigar to the flame. Otherwise, you may contaminate the cigar’s flavour. Cedar Spills One of the most traditional ways of lighting a cigar is with long strips of cedar known as “spills”. They can either ...