2. The green fireworks
FORMULATIONS
DEVELOPED BY A
CONSORTIUM OF EIGHT
LABORATORIES UNDER
THE COUNCIL OF
SCIENTIFIC AND
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
(CSIR) LED BY
THE NATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING RESEARCH
INSTITUTE (NEERI) IN
NAGPUR.
5. THE SUPREME COURT, IN
A LANDMARK RULING IN
OCTOBER 2018, HAD
BANNED CONVENTIONAL
FIRECRACKERS AND
ENFORCED A TWO-HOUR
LIMIT (8PM – 10PM) FOR
SETTING THEM OFF
DURING DIWALI.
NEW “GREEN CRACKERS”
TO REDUCE PARTICULATE
EMISSION BY 30 PER CENT
WHILE PRODUCING THE
SAME LEVEL OF LIGHT AND
SOUND EFFECTS AS
TRADITIONAL FIREWORKS.
6. Firecrackers are rolled paper tubes filled with black powder (also called
gunpowder). They might also be filled with flash paper and a fuse. When
you light the fuse of a firecracker, the fire burns along the fuse.
Eventually, it reaches the powder.
HOW ARE
FIRECRACKERS MADE?
8. What is green
crackers for
Diwali?
Green crackers may not be implemented
this Diwali but yes in future government is
planning to implement them. So, now we
understood that green crackers are those
which reduce emission and decibel levels.
Basically, fireworks chemistry is based on
theory of combustion.