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Awesome fireworks, awesome effect.

Fireworks technology is advancing and these brilliant cube shells are a result of that. This is stunning, a large cubic shape in the sky that really shows off the designers talents.

Whats next for fireworks design? watch this space to find out.

The Waterloo Labs team, experimenting with fireworks to music using computer control.

Two of the coolest and most powerful forces in nature brought together to create a truly amazing thing.

The Fire Tornado!!

This is genius, funny, informative, wittily made and brief. Everything you want from a video!

top marks to the maker.

Science is a wonderful thing. Without science we would not have fireworks at all.

Science occasionaly throws something really cool at you. Here we have a video of Thermite in action.

Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of aluminium powder and a metal oxide which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction. It is not explosive, but can create short bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small target for a short period of time.
The aluminium reduces the oxide of another metal, most commonly iron oxide, because aluminium is highly combustible:
Fe2O3 + 2Al = 2Fe + Al2O3 + Heat