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Colored smoke bombs use a mixture of an oxidizer, a fuel, a moderant to keep the reaction from getting too hot, and a powdered organic dye. When the mixture is burned, the dye evaporates and is forced out of the device, where it condenses in the atmosphere to form a cloud of fine particles, the smoke.

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