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Originally Posted by Theory5
Lucky :-P
Where did you live at the time? I live in MA so firecrackers are illegal.
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They are here too, now, that was 45 years ago!
In all our time we only lost one finger amongst ALL the kids in a very long street!
That included fights with 2d "double-bungers"-- monster explosive crackers that used to rip apart most letterboxes.
Yes we made pipe "guns" with a piece of 1/2" water pipe a bunger and a steel ball-bearing.
It is remarkable that we mostly survived uninjured.
About 30 years ago I had a grown up "Bonfire Night" party at my farm. The
adults were lunatics ! One, a medical doctor, had to be taken to casualty. I never had another similar party.
Good to see young kids these days are much more sensible and only into sex and drugs.
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And if a teacher wants to get any sort of material that can be used as combustables are greatly restricted to teachers. I remember watching that material (I forget what its called I think its something that is usually not in solid form) burn in water. The teacher only had just enough to show it to all of her classes once. :-(
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Magnesium?
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Magnesium powder is used in the manufacture of fireworks and marine flares where a brilliant white light is required
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Magnesium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amazing what i can remember.
