Tonight when you're watching fireworks you can point out that the red is caused by the addition of strontium, blue by copper, green by barium, and yellow/orange by sodium. Aluminum can be golden or white depending on the temperature.
Ooooooh, that strontium, copper, and aluminum combo looks so patriotic!
You can read more about what makes fireworks sparkle here.
Posted by marybeth at July 4, 2005 03:33 PM ScienceROTFL! That's great! Great geeky info.
Posted by vw bug at July 4, 2005 08:00 PMI annoy my friends enough as it is.
But thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by Allan at July 7, 2005 12:33 AM