Fountain Mixes

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Fountain #1 - White. Difficult to ignite, needs a thermite or comparable prime.
Barium nitrate 45
Potassium nitrate 5
Meal powder 5
Aluminum 45
Fountain #2
Meal powder 72
Potassium nitrate 7
Charcoal 7
Dark Aluminum 7
Aluminum (-80/+120) 7
Fountain #3 - Charcoal, sulfur and potassium nitrate are ball milled and very fine. Iron is medium coarse. After mixing (by diaper method), add an equal weight of course meal powder (about 1Fg to 2Fg equivalent), and mix that in too.
Potassium nitrate 50
Charcoal 10
Sulfur 15
Iron 25
Meal or Lift Powder (Coarse, 1Fg to 2Fg equiv.) +100%
Fountain #4
Meal powder 70
Pine charcoal 4
Aluminum, Magnalium or Titanium Powder 26
Fountain #5
Potassium nitrate 24
Charcoal 4
Sulfur 4
Iron 10
Fountain #6
Potassium nitrate 2
Charcoal 41
Sulfur 1
Iron 1
Meal powder 6
Fountain #7
Potassium nitrate 2
Charcoal 4
Iron 2
Meal powder 4
Fountain #8
Potassium nitrate 8
Sulfur 3
Antimony trisulfide 1
Meal powder 2
Fountain #9
Antimony trisulfide 8
Aluminum 4
Meal powder 40
Fountain #10
Antimony trisulfide 9
Dextrin 4
Meal powder 40
Sodium oxalate 6
Fountain #11
Potassium nitrate 3
Charcoal 1
Sulfur 1
Aluminum 1
Meal powder 2


Fountain #12-Produces bright white sparks with a rushing sound, almost without flame. The aluminium and iron need to be somewhere between 100 and 400 mesh for best results.
Meal powder 16
Aluminium 3
Iron 2
Fountain #13-Experiment with the Quantities of Potassium perchlorate and Aluminium. produces lots of bright white sparks. potassium perchlorate can be replaced with potassium nitrate.
Potassium perchlorate 40
Aluminium (spherical) 40
Charcoal 7
Dark Aluminum 6
Dextrin 7
Fountain #14 - Gold and bluish spark, orange fire
Meal D POWDER 67
Magnalium 21
Sodium bicarbonate 1,5
Strontium nitrate 10
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