Environmentally Friendly Fireworks And Other Pyrotechnics

Courtesy ScienceDaily Wed, 03/19/2008 - 03:00

You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom — and entrances us. Chemistry certainly makes people think of fireworks.

Yet fireworks pollute the environment in many ways. New research shows possible ways to make less-polluting pyrotechnics, but they are likely to cost more to make.

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