Fireworks, explained
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
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If you’re in the US this July 4th, you’ll be seeing a ton of fireworks. But have you ever wondered how they make sure that each individual firework epxlodes into a distinct and creative shape? In this video, we explain how fireworks work!
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In one minute you solved a lifelong mystery for me, thank you
Foreal
Don't translate
កុំអានឈ្មោះរបស់ខ្ញុំ
Imagine doing all of that work for 3 seconds of beauty.
Worth it.
Forbidden blueberries..
Genuinely cool.
What I learned in watching a pyro display is that you should not record a video of it, rather, just watch it.
Why?
@@IS_CBR_2763don't save the special moments- live them
@@Nelo390 xkcd 1314, It's ok to save special moments if that is what you enjoy.
I always take videos, use to work for a display company. One of the times I did record was actually a good thing that I did because something had happened and the video was needed to show a couple people
I always wondered about this but never curious enough to research...thnks vox keep up the good work..👍🏻
Thats why I love fireworks!!!
I always wondered, but I thought “surely it can’t be as simple as arranging the powder in that same shape”
But I guess sometimes the simplest answer is the right one.
Copper and strontium look the best that purple is amzing
Millennial here suddenly reminded of that one episode of the Spiderman cartoon.
Beautiful 💥
the heart ones are the coolest to me! 💕
This was concise, interesting, and informative.
I like this.
Now that we know how it works, let's all stop shooting them into the sky
I'm wondering why shapes aren't more common if it's such a straightforward thing. Seems like it's always just circles/random
Cost. Arranging them in a pattern takes more effort then just circles/random thus for the cheapest most mass producible fireworks you're going to avoid shapes.
this is just like minecraft
And here I was thinking they had to use complex design 🤦🏾♂️
Wow
I am always on fire.❤.
you might need to call the fire department for that
What color do stars made with uranium make?
after doing a bit of research I'm pretty sure it is a reddish brown
go ask hiroshima
Zamn
Magenesium
How come letters and shapes aren't more common then? Seems simple enough to make. I've never seen fireworks spell out "USA", for example.
There's a company that does light shows with drones and can spell out precise words.
The reason why you haven't seen that b4 Is bc whenever a display shoots off any firework with a design, they shoot off multiple at a time in hopes that at least 1 shows up in the right orientation. The shell spins and it shoots up in the air, so you never know how the design will be orientated when the shell explodes. Thats why, for example, you see smiley faces upside down or on their side, or looks like something you can't even tell what it is. So if someone had tried to spell USA, the chances of it actually reading as USA would be very low.
👍👍👍
What exactly is the environmental impact of all those chemicals being released into the atmosphere? *Genuinely curious 😬
Probably not much.
isn't strontium RADIOACTIVE?!
no, the strontium-90 isotope is radioactive, natural strontium is stable
Everything is radioactive. How radioactive is the interesting bit. For strontium, not much. Same for you, not much, but you are radioactive.
one specific isotope (Sr-90), but strontium as a whole (Sr-86 to 88)is stable
@@hanstun1not necessarily, there are non radioactive isotopes.
those were barely hearts.
You haven't mentioned how bad for the environment fireworks are.
There's a company that does light shows with drones. The owner said it's partly for the environment.