Salut151

Sorry. The Kosanke's are who publish the journal of pyrotechnics. They are some of the better pyrotechnic chemists that I know of. http://www.jpyro.com/index.htm

There are contact forms and such on that site.

Well, energetic materials is the classification they give to several things. Explosives being one. Pyrotechnics, and propellants are another group in the classification.

Thank You but I'm unable to send them an e-mail. I wanna do some trainings with them but they are in Uk and me in Canada. I haven't find any trainings givens in Canada. Only 1 given by the governement to get a license.

Well, it really depends on what you want to do. If you want to be a shooter, there isn't really much you need to study in school, it is more a trade you apprentice into it seems. If you want to manufacture, same thing. If you want to sell fireworks retail, I would say business degree. If you want to do pyrotechnic chemistry, I would say give one of the Kosanke's an e-mail, and ask them. They would be the first place I would go. The best place would probably be in the military with research in energetic materials.

I thought about doing this too, but I don't really know where I would go for it. I am looking more into pharmacology myself.

What is Kosanke's ? I tought about the military too. Energetic materials is explosives ?
Thank You

Yeah, really nice. How much does it cost to build 1 ?
Will you do a how-to guide to build one ?
Thank You !

Salut151 - that was quite a silly thing to do!! You are very very lucky the gloves protected you. You should always test things like that with a few seconds of fuse and stand back, because you do not always know what will happen!

I know ! For this reason, I will always use a fuse in the future with a BBQ lighter.

Hello Paul, me too I got an accident. I was lighting a new king of Bp and it burn in a fraction of second. I light it with a lighter (no fuse) so my right hand have been totaly in the fire. I was lucky cause I was wearing Nomex gloves (I recomand everyone to purchage a pair on ebay). My glove was all black and my lighter was unusable but my skin did not get burned and I feeled no heat. Since this time, I always wear my gloves.
I hope every pyro will do the same.