Fireworks

What's cooler than a good firework? A sky full of great fireworks! From their earliest discovery in China, some 1500 years ago, to the pyrotechnic extravaganzas of today, learn all about the basics of fireworks in this sparkling BrainPOP UK movie. In this educational, animated movie, you’ll discover different kinds of fireworks from rockets to Catherine wheels and fire crackers to sparklers. Find out their components – including the different chemicals, such as sodium salts, used to make different colours. Find out why some fireworks burn very slowly while others explode dangerously, what it is that gives fireworks their glorious colours, and what shells and stars have to do with it all. Ooooh!

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