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 ...

You see, to make fireworks, you need four basic components: Fuel, usually gunpowder, a compound that produces color, a fuse, and glue to hold it all together. You mix this stuff up into what's ...

Changes to legislation proposed Monday would make it easier for prosecutors to convict those charged with fireworks-related ...

time-delay fuse, bursting charge, and other essential ingredients. Here, put on the pyrotechnician's hat and see a typical firework from the inside out.

And a “cake” is a firework with multiple launch tubes that are lit from a single fuse and chain-fused together so they go off sequentially, he told McClatchy News in a Jan. 2 phone call.

But a squib is literally a miniature explosive device, or form of firework, usually cylindrical in shape and with a paper fuse at one end, which fails to ignite if it gets wet. (The phrase is comm ...

Old fireworks are probably safe to use if they are not wet or damaged and the fuse is still intact, but that can be hard to tell months later. The shelf life of fireworks is 8 to 20 years when ...