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Why does a smoke bomb emit white smoke?

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Smoke from an ordinary home-made smoke grenade is a mixture of water vapour, potassium oxide, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Water vapour is white, as is potassium carbonate <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43136799">Tyler And Nates Smoke Bomb</a><br/><object width="425px" height="360px" ><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=43136799,t=1,mt=video"/><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=43136799,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

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