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    The Magic of Fireworks

    Oct 01, 2020 3 minutes
    by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
    art by Mark Hicks

    Beautiful Bangs

    Fireworks were invented in China over a thousand years ago. But even scientists today sometimes have no idea why they work the way they do.

    A firework expert, or pyrotechnician, might say that a firework is a bunch of chemicals arranged so that they explode or burn in a particular order. But “this is one type of chemistry that is not easy to study in

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