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Barium nitrate
Potassium nitrate
Potassium chlorate
Strontium carbonate
Copper oxychlonde
Sulfur
Red gum
Shellac
Calomel
PARADE TORCHES 67
MARINE FLARE TORCH
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Parade Torches
Parade torches are made in various colors; they are of better
quality than railway fusees, burn with a deeper color and a
brighter light, and are generally made with more expensive compositions.
Below are a few typical examples. Parade torches are
Strontium nitrate
Barium nitrate
Potassium chlorate
Potassium perchlorate
Sodium oxalate
Cupnc oxide
Paris green
Sal ammoniac
Calomel
Sulfur
K D gum
Shellac
Red gum
Dextrin
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Red
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Green
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30
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Purple
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Amber
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Blue
equipped with wooden handles at the lower ends, and are sealed
at their upper ends with a piece of cloth or paper, pasted on,
through which a hole has been punched into the composition to a
depth of about 1 inch—and through this a piece of black match 21
21 The match, prepared by dipping a few strands of cotton twine, twisted
together, into a paste of meal powder and allowing to dry while stretched
on a frame, is called black match by the pyrotechnists When this is enclosed
in a paper tube, it burns almost instantaneously and is then known
as quickmatch Such quickmatch is used for communicating fire in set
pieces, Catherine wheels, etc
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