To make these loud explosions, which are usually accompanied by a bright white flash, firework manufacturers use mixtures of perchlorate, a different kind of explosive than black powder.

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The accident is altogether unprecedented; nothing like it could have happened to a manufactory of common black gunpowder. We now come to the process of manufacture. The inventor begins by taking ...

Automated systems splutter as raw materials are fed into the machines to begin the process of creating highly-explosive ...