PyroTechnics

PYROTECHNICS Pyrotechnics special effects are widely used in motion picture production to create all types of effects involving explosions, fires, light, smoke and sound concussions. The types of pyrotechnics materials used include flash powder, flash paper, gun cotton, black powder (gunpowder), smokeless powder, detonator explosives, and many more. They are used in bullet hits (squibs), blank cartridges, flash pots, fuses, mortars, smoke pots, sparkle pots, etc. The main problems of pyrotechnics include prematurely triggering the …

…magnesium and aluminum as the fuel. It is important to store oxidizers carefully since they can utilize many types of organic materials as fuels. Potassium chlorate, for example, is one of the best oxidizers, but is particularly dangerous because it is so reactive. Lycopodium is also used by pyrotechnicians for fire effects. It is not actually a pyrotechnics materials but a combustible material. Since it is a combustible, organic dust, it is explosive when enclosed.