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[pyrotechnist]

So do you still have a whole on the top of the tin?

[Arthur Brown]

The tin I now have is used with the one 4mm hole on the bottom and the gasses vent into the flame without the stink of venting them into the atmosphere.

[Well Combusted]

The Charnwood area or Leicestershire was once under a tropical sea.

You realise some consider that a good thing?

[PyroSkitz]

this might be not true, but firework making is kind of carbon neutral, charcoal which is made up from trees which take in the carbon dioxide in the first place, the only real add on is the heat source for the charcoal, secondly sulfur which is collected at the rim's of volcanoes is a naturally occurring element, and lastly potassium nitrate which in the old days was pumped out of bat caves or scrapped of peoples floors during the spring cleaning season, all those combined to me don't seem to be making such a big impact on our environment, and then when burning the black powder the CO2 from the charcoal goes back into our glorious willow trees, the sulfur either turns into sulfur dioxide or acid rain which makes its way back down to the ground to give nutrients to willow trees and just plants in general, the only thing where adding is the nitrogen from the potassium nitrate, but our atmosphere as plenty of that anyways,

i hope this made sense and was true, not some rubbish that ive been making up


thanks for having a read
George