Each color works the same way. As different elements ignite they release different wavelengths of light which translate as different colors. Not all colors of fireworks are equally easy to create.

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took ...

First, a base of black powder ignites to shoot the firework into the sky, and lights a fuse on fire ... and glue. Inside, colorful "stars" filled with elements that burn into bright-hot colors ...

A firework is an icon of synergism, in which the end result is greater than the individual effects. Yet where most of us see the whole—the brilliant light and vivid color of a successful burst ...