{"id":99,"date":"2007-01-22T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:46:24","slug":"the-search-for-the-glitter-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"The Search For The Glitter Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>John Wraige<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> This report presents the results of experiments carried out spasmodically over 14 years to investigate the glitter phenomenon. Various glitter compositions are disclosed. Some of these show that the use of sulphur in either elemental or combined form is unnecessary. Others show that similar considerations apply to antimony or any other heavy metal. It is further shown that the potassium ion may be replaced by either the caesium, rubidium, or sodium ion. Speculative broad mechanisms involved in the production of the glitter effect are discussed.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Fireworks, glitter, sulphur-free, nitrate, metals, nitro-compounds<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #221e1f; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'Times New Roman';\"><em><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Ref:<\/strong> JPyro, Issue 24, 2006, pp40-49<br \/>\n(J24_40)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wraige Abstract: This report presents the results of experiments carried out spasmodically over 14 years to investigate the glitter phenomenon. Various glitter compositions are disclosed. Some of these show that the use of sulphur in either elemental or combined form is unnecessary. Others show that similar considerations apply to antimony or any other heavy &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=99\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Search For The Glitter Phenomenon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}