Magnesium is used extensively in old-fashioned flash photography. It is used in some fireworks, also. Fireworks usually contain a mixture of metals chosen for the colors they produce, along with gunpowder. Old fashioned flash powder can be made several ways including gunpowder mixed with tiny particles of magnesium, aluminum, or other metals.
Magnesium.
Magnesium
Road flares are commonly used by civilians for signals and may be ignited on the ground or fired as an aerial signal from a pistol-like flare gun or launched from a self-contained tube.
To protect you from solar flares
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Magnenium
Neon
It is used to fill incandescent lightbulbs, florescent lightbulbs, and bulbs used for photography (flash bulbs)
Magnesium
Magnesium is a silvery white metal used in flares fireworks and photographic light bulbs
Oxygen.
Old cameras used to use flash bulbs. The storm was over in a flash. A flash of lightning scared the children.
Magnesium was used in photographic flash bulbs and also fireworks. Mercury was also used until the dangers of this metal were widely known.
Tungsten
oxygen