What are fireworks made of?
Fireworks take paper, cardboard, charcoal, sulfur and sewing thread directly. Trace them back and you pass 35 made things on the way to 13 raw materials.
How fireworks are made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 13 raw materials
- Sulfur goes straight in
- Water through sewing thread
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Timber through charcoal
- Rock salt through cardboard, wood pulp, caustic soda
- Air through cardboard, wood pulp, hydrogen peroxide
- Crude oil through cardboard, adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through cardboard, adhesive, paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Corn through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide
- Coal through cardboard, adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
- Sugarcane through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
- Sugar beet through sewing thread, polyester, PET plastic, ethylene glycol, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 31 things
Chemicals and fuels 22
AdhesiveCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideParaffin waxHydrogenEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidPara-xyleneEthylene glycolNaphthaBenzeneCarbon dioxideToluene
Plastics and fibers 6
Wood and paper 1
Food 2
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.