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Chemistry's way of making an explosion look like art and a budget line.
means The craft of making fireworks or other controlled fire-and-explosive displays, or by extension any dazzling, showy burst of skill (a guitar solo, a verbal argument) that lights up the room.
from Built from Greek pyr, 'fire,' plus tekhne, 'art or skill' — the same root that gives us 'technique' and 'technology.' Pyrotechnics entered European languages as the formal name for the art of fireworks-making, a discipline that had been refined for centuries, especially in China, before Western chemists turned it into a named science of controlled spectacle.
- color science
- metal salts burn specific colors, strontium red, copper blue
- blue problem
- vivid blue is hardest and most expensive color to produce
- timing trick
- fuses control delay so shapes bloom in sequenced layers
- ancient origin
- china invented gunpowder fireworks over a thousand years ago