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I think Corned black powder should be moved to Tutorials, and only formula of Black powder should be left in this section, as this section is for compositions only :) --213.226.165.162 02:55, 3 January 2007 (EST)

I believe you have a point and as a result have moved Corned, Meal and Pulverone black powders to tutorials. --Jamesy 07:40, 3 January 2007 (EST)

i wrote an article on potassium perchlorate flash, how do i get it on the compositions page?

I have done this for you, but all you need to do is look at other articles in compositions and view the source - this will help you to see some of the tricks used :-) --Jamesy 07:13, 28 March 2007 (EST)

How about comps get broken down by category's such as Fountain, Gerb & Bengal Fire. , Colored Stars, Sparkler, Flash, Burst Charges, Rocket propellants, Colored Fire , Delays and Primes, Flares & Torches, Smoke, Miscellaneous. I hope we can implement this? J

Powdered candy propellant should really be moved into Candy propellant. /djdoru666

Winokur 1-40 with annotations posted in rec.pyro, perhaps they can be helpful to whomever works these entries. --Sevenoneone 13:17, 23 October 2007 (EST)

Winokur 1 Reference, ALL: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 35.00% Potassium Nitrate 15.00% Strontium Nitrate 13.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Sulfur 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 5.00% Dextrin

Pinkish glitter, hygroscopic.

Winokur 2 percent Component 40.00% Potassium Nitrate 13.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Strontium Nitrate 10.00% Sulfur 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 5.00% Dextrin

Pinkish glitter, hygroscopic.

Winokur 3 percent Parts component 49.50% 50 Potassium Nitrate 11.88% 12 Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh)

 9.90% 10      Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 8.91%   9     Sulfur
 7.92%   8     Charcoal (Airfloat)
 7.92%   8     Strontium Carbonate
 3.96%           4     Dextrin

Pinkish glitter

Winokur 4 percent Parts component 50.51% 50 Potassium Nitrate 12.12% 12 Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.10% 10 Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.09%   9     Sulfur
 8.08%   8     Charcoal (Airfloat)
 6.06%   6     Strontium Oxalate
 4.04%   4     Dextrin

Pinkish glitter

Winokur 5 percent Component 40.00% Potassium Nitrate 10.00% Sodium Nitrate 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.00% Sulfur
 9.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh)
 8.00% Strontium Oxalate
 4.00% Dextrin

Pinkish glitter, quite hygroscopic, but useable.

Winokur 6 percent Component 53.00% Potassium Nitrate 16.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle) 13.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 9.00% Sulfur
 4.50% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 4.50% Dextrin

Whitish glitter.

Winokur 7 percent Component 35.00% Potassium Nitrate 20.00% Barium Nitrate 14.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 9.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 8.00% Sodium Oxalate
 4.00% Dextrin

Gold glitter. Sodium oxalate to enhance the glitter without antimony trisulfide. Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) may replace the oxalate with similar results.

Winokur 8 percent Component 37.00% Potassium Nitrate 15.00% Barium Nitrate 15.00% Sulfur 13.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 6.00% Iron (III) Oxide
 4.00% Dextrin

White glitter that uses iron oxide and sulfur to replace antimony trisulfide. While the effect is inferior to antimony, the formula is still useable.

Winokur 9 percent Component 35.00% Potassium Nitrate 20.00% Barium Nitrate 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 10.00% Sulfur

 9.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 4.00% Dextrin

Good white glitter that uses barium nitrate as both the oxidizer and the retardant.

Winokur 10 percent Component 35.00% Potassium Nitrate 20.00% Barium Nitrate 17.00% Sulfur 14.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh) 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 4.00% Dextrin

Excellent white glitter with long tail, fine grain and dense. In general, this comp make a good cheap tremalon for small stars. It is less effective in comets because the tail is short. It is much easier to make a long-tailed comet using a comp with meal and antimony sulfide.

Winokur 11 percent Component 40.00% Potassium Nitrate 20.00% Barium Nitrate 14.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh) 10.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 5.00% Dextrin
 1.00% Iron (III) Oxide

Winokur 12 percent Component 55.00% Potassium Nitrate 14.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical 120-325 mesh) 11.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 8.00% Sulfur
 5.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 4.00% Dextrin
 3.00% Strontium Carbonate

Screen ingredients together well. Moisten with 6% 25/75 ETOH/H2O to pump stars or comets. White glitter with long tail. Coarse flitters make this mix a chore to cut. Use Al that passes 30- mesh in this composition. The amount of water to dampen is necessary to make the mix hold together for cutting. Dredge the stars well in priming meal to keep them from sticking together. They will dry and become hard. No problem with heating or evolution of gas.

Winokur 13 percent Parts component 54.95% 50 Potassium Nitrate 10.99% 10 Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.89%   9     Charcoal (Airfloat)
 9.89%   9     Sulfur
 6.59%   6     Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 4.40%   4     Dextrin
 3.30%   3     Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh)

Off-white glitter with attractive lacy effect.

"Thirteen Plus" Orv Carlisle's Modification of #13 Potassium Nitrate 50% Antimony Sulfide 10 Sulfur 9 Charcoal Air float 9 Sodium Oxalate 9 Al, Atomized 400mesh 9 Dextrin 4 Boric Acid + 1 Lightly damp with 7% water (7g water to 100g composition) I mill the KNO3, C and S and then screen in the other ingredients 3 or 4 times. If you cut these instead of pumping comets, 10% water works for me when compressed in a loaf box. It's a pretty star. Cut, pump or roll. Makes great pumped comets. It makes a very handsome and "lacy" gold flitter star without commercial or ball milled meal powder.

Winokur 14 percent Parts component 51.02% 50 Potassium Nitrate 11.22% 11 Sulfur 10.20% 10 Charcoal (Airfloat)

 8.16%   8     Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 5.10%   5     Dextrin
 5.10%   5     Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 5.10%   5     Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.08%   4     Magnalium (granular, -325 mesh)

Off-white with attractive lacy effect.

Winokur 15 percent Parts component 47.52% 48 Potassium Nitrate 13.86% 14 Magnalium (granular, -325 mesh)

 9.90% 10      Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 8.91%   9     Charcoal (Airfloat)
 8.91%   9     Sulfur
 6.93%   7     Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 3.96%   4     Dextrin

Gold magnalium glitter. Large flashes, good delay and long tail.

Winokur 16 percent Component 48.00% Potassium Nitrate 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 11.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 9.00% Sulfur 9.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle) 7.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) 4.00% Dextrin Gold glitter with large flashes, good delay and long tail.

Winokur 17 percent Component 47.00% Potassium Nitrate 13.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 13.00% Sulfur 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 5.00% Dextrin

White glitter, large flashes, thick tail.

Winokur 18 percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 15.00% Sulfur 13.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 7.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 5.00% Dextrin

White glitter.

Winokur 19 ("Penny Glitter") Potassium Nitrate 50 Sulfur 20 Charcoal, airfloat 10 Magnalium, -200mesh 10 Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) 6 Dextrin 4

Winokur 20 percent Component 48.00% Potassium Nitrate 17.00% Sulfur 12.00% Magnalium (granular, -200 mesh) 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 5.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.00% Iron (III) Oxide
 4.00% Dextrin

Gold glitter, with very long delay. No antimony. Very nice gold glitter. Excellent delay, bright gold flashes.

Screen together pre-milled components, or ball mill all but Magnalium then screen it in before dampening. Dampen with 6-8% water and pump. Fairly slow burning, meal priming is highly recommended to engulf the stars properly. Magnalium is typically a mixture of -60+325 mesh sizes rather than purely -200 mesh, but with the majority of the material -100 mesh. Coarse fractions of Magnalium makes the composition crackle a bit as it burns, which in the air and from a distance makes the glitter make a "rushing" sound as it burns adding to the overall effect. A Yates

You just have to try Win #20. This is less of a glitter and more of a strobe star of sorts. It actually strobes as it burns and it burns a deep golden color (similar to 24 carat gold). Something like that over a blue core might be great. Do try them as stars all by themselves. Adding just 20% of these to any shell really makes the break great as these not only strobe as they burn, they also kind-of crackle and sizzle loud enough to be heard from the ground. If you mix these with blue stars in a shell, they will create enough light to contrast the blue but not so much that they wash-out the blue stars. Gene passfire

Winokur 21 percent Parts component 54.26% 51 Potassium Nitrate 15.96% 15 Sulfur 10.64% 10 Charcoal (Airfloat) 6.38% 6 Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 6.38%   6     Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 6.38%   6     Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)

Dense gold glitter, medium grained. Uses Sodium Bicarbonate as glitter enhancement.

Winokur 22 percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 18.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 8.00% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 6.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 4.00% Dextrin

Medium grained dense gold glitter.

Winokur 23 percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 20.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 8.00% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 8.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.00% Dextrin

Medium grained dense gold glitter. No Antimony.

Winokur 24 percent Component 52.00% Potassium Nitrate 21.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 6.00% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh) 6.00% Sodium Chloride (Table Salt) 5.00% Dextrin Good gold glitter, good delay, but very hygroscopic.

Nice glitter, short-lived tail of gold flashes, better if kept quite dry. Combine by ball milling sans the Aluminum for at least one hour. Screen in the Aluminum well using a 60 mesh screen. Binds well with 25% alcohol solution. A Yates

Winokur 25 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 52.00% Potassium Nitrate 17.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 6.00% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 5.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 5.00% Iron (III) Oxide
 5.00% Dextrin

A silver glitter with fairly large flashes and a medium short tail. No more than 8% water can be used when mixing, preferably less. The low usage of expensive metals makes this a very cheap formula ideally suited for large pumped stars and comets.

Winokur 26 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 52.00% Potassium Nitrate 21.00% Sulfur 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)

 6.00% Aluminum (flake, bright. -325 mesh)
 6.00% Iron (III) Oxide
 5.00% Dextrin

Silver glitter, large flashes, and medium short tail.

Winokur 27 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)
 9.00% Sulfur
 9.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 9.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.00% Dextrin

Winokur 28 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)
 9.00% Sulfur
 9.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 6.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 4.00% Dextrin
 3.00% Aluminum (flake, dark -325 mesh)

A fine grained off white glitter that produces small but symmetrical flashes. Dark aluminum is added to solve problems with fallout and increase the density of flashes.

Winokur 29 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Parts component 48.08% 50 Potassium Nitrate 14.42% 15 Sulfur

 9.62% 10      Charcoal (Airfloat)
 9.62% 10      Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)
 6.73%   7     Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 6.73%   7     Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 3.85% +4      Dextrin
 0.96%   1     Aluminum (flake, dark, -325 mesh)

Fine grained white glitter.

Winokur 30 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 50.00% Potassium Nitrate 10.00% Antimony Trisulfide (Chinese needle)

 9.00% Charcoal (Airfloat)
 9.00% Sulfur
 8.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh)
 6.00% Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)
 4.00% Aluminum (flake, dark,-325 mesh)
 4.00% Dextrin

Fine grained off white glitter that produces small but symmetrical flashes.

Winokur 31 Reference: Text: Pyrotechnic Phenomenon of Glitter, Pyrotechnica II, 1978 Author: Robert M. Winokur percent Component 45.00% Potassium Nitrate 12.00% Aluminum (atomized, spherical, 120-325 mesh) 10.00% Barium Nitrate 10.00% Charcoal (Airfloat) 10.00% Sulfur

 5.00% Dextrin
 4.00% Iron (III) Oxide
 4.00% Barium Carbonate