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various metallic salts are added to the explosive materials to give different colours.

Ye, specifically... Strontium makes red, sodium makes yellow, potassium nitrate or magnesium makes white or silver, pure potassium makes purple, copper = greenish blue

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Salts of this metal are produced in fireworks making a beautiful crimsin color?

sodium


Does noble gases give fireworks the ability to glow?

No, noble gasses are not used in fireworks. Fireworks get their color from metal ions.


What metal must be added to a fireworks to give it a blue color?

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What metal must be added to make fireworks a blue color?

Copper


Why are blue fireworks uncommon?

Fireworks gets their color from burning metals. The metal the gives blue is expensive and quite poisonous.


Salts of this metal are used in flares and fireworks producing a beautiful crimson color?

same chemistry worksheet its strontium


What metal must be added to a firework to give it a blue color?

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What red color alkaline earth metal makes itself useful in fireworks and flares?

the answer is really lithium nitrate. nitrate mixed with lithium an alkaline metal element.


What silver-white metal is in fireworks?

Aluminium and magnesium are used in fireworks.


Is beryllium flammable or combustable?

Beryllium is in fireworks. Beryllium is used in fireworks to change the color of the effect to a white color.


How is the light given off by fireworks similar to an element's emission spectrum?

Many firework colors are made by burning metal salts. Each element gives off a unique color of the spectrum. When fireworks are lit, it causes the atoms of the metal salts to become excited, and as the fireworks are shot into the air electronic transition takkes place and visible light is seen. Depending on what elements the firework is made of will determine the color seen.


What metal is used in fireworks and why?

non metals- it contains substances that make fireworks burst!