Review of “Pollution Caused by Fireworks”
by Doris Gnauck White
Review by: Monona Rossol
The basic problem with Professor White’s paper is that she is preaching to the converted. Most subscribers to the American EnvironmentalLaboratory understand that igniting any substance pollutes the air. These readers know that burning autumn leaves, having barbecues, , or putting a log in the fireplace is outlawed in many areas of the country because it significantly impacts air quality.
For this reason, Professor White only felt it necessary to list 53 chemicals that might be found in fireworks and let readers imagine their breakdown products drifting off in a cloud of smoke. If she really wanted to worry her readers, she would have included lead azide “bombs” set off on movie sets, or discussed theatrical pyrotechnics where the audience and performers are trapped in an enclosed space with pyrotechnic emissions.
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Ref: JPyro, Issue 8, 1998, pp74-75
(J8_74)
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