I was thinking. The possibility of red from fireworks, as halloween is coming up. Might be worth pursuing.

From what I've been told, they don't use RP much in fireworks anymore. Admittedly, this is second hand info, but from what I was led to believe by a dude that know way more than me... it isn't worth it.

Switrd asked that very question for his very first post...back when he was AlwaysTired. Anyway, it stirred up a bees nest in no time. Got completely off subject and shit. Ok there are different opinions on the matter. I plan to take apart a few myself...even if switrd's too lazy to help. I think the PiccoloPetes, or whatever they're are called may be a good place to start. I recall a buddy of mine telling me that he had taken one apart last year and the tip was filled with what, when I showed him switrd's rp...he said it was the same stuff in the tip. Aren't most fireworks made out in mexico or somethin?

I think RP is not found in fireworks nowadays,but old ones should contain it with osme other compostions.

well johnny had this to say about the subject when he came over. Red P is not something that would be put in fireworks to make them go boom or bang, rather Red P would be used in certain types of fireworks along with other chemicals and substances to get differing "pretty" results. i.e. if the pyro tech wanted to make the pretty blue sparkles at the end of the white streamers before the kaboom he might add so many grams of powder a, or if he wanted to make a fizz or zip sound before the kaboom he might add so many grams of powder b in the first phase of the firework. This info courtesy of Bill Nye "the science guy" and a super cool documentary about being a pyro tech as a career. It was super cool how the guy had a table with all these little bins of different powders and chems to do different things. Johnny inferred this, it definitely is in some fireworks but absolutely not in all of them and the only way to really know which is which would be to determine the resulting effect that adding the RED P to the firework would produce. Then from that narrowed field you might need to do research on the field of pyrotechnics to get a clear answer. BTW johnny was amazed to find out that these guys make like 20 grand a show...what a job