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Aerial Effects

In an attempt to make picking out consumer fireworks, manufactures began putting performance labels on all of their items. This is a great idea unless you are unfamiliar with the terms that are used to describe the aerial effects. This page list all of the different type of effects that you might encounter. We will have movies or pictures coming soon to give you a picture of what the definition is describing.

Atomic Pattern - Three contiguous circles representing the orbits of electrons circling a nucleus.

Battle in the Clouds - A shell that produces a series of loud salutes after it breaks with color mixed in.

Bees
- Are an aerial effect that is very similar to the firefly effect. see Firefly.

Brocade  - Long burning stars that produce a willow effect, however doesn't last as long as a Kamuro.

Butterfly Break - This is related to the way in which a cylindrical shell breaks. A cylindrical shell breaks at a point towards the center of the shell.  There is also a complicated pattern shell that is made to look like a butterfly when it breaks.

Chrysanthemum Shell  - Unlike the Peony in which the stars produce no visible trail the chrysanthemum produce a strong tail as the stars move out.

Coconut Shell - a shell that contains a large comet that produces a coconut palm tree upon bursting. These shells are normally complemented with a color tail.

Comet - Bright tail with no break at the peak. Go up as long as their is fuel to burn.

Crackle - Audio sound.  The effect is produced by many sharp loud bangs. Sounds like popping a bunch of those bubble sheets.

Crossette
- Splitting Comet.

Crown -
 The tips of the aerial shell after falling change colors.

Dahlia
- Similar to a Peony except contains fewer, brighter stars. Brightly colored stars that fall from the break

Diadem - A large chrysanthemum with a huge willow effect

Dragon Eggs – groups of crackling sparks.

Falling Flowers
- Small color flowers that fall from a flower type shell.

Fish -
effect similar to the firefly

Firefly - This is an aerial effect which looks like a swarm of fireflies in the sky.

Glitter
- Stars only flash once.

Half & Half - A flower with half one color and half another.

Heavy report - The final very loud report in a multiple break

Kamuro - Silver or gold, that falls a distance from the center burst before, changes color at the end of its path.

Maroon - A firework which produces a single loud report.

Palm - This effect might remind you of looking at a palm tree.

Pattern Shell  - Aerial shell that produces a clear shape, for example a circle, Saturn with ring and moons, or even an atom. Stars that break into a shape such as a star, heart, etc.

Peony - An effect with burning stars with no trails.

Pistil  - Is an effect in aerial shells when the center of the burst is of different color and/or effect from the outside part of the burst.

Rain - Long lasting stars from an aerial shell or rocket that fall all the way to the ground.

Report - Loud Explosion.

Ring Shell  -  This effect produces an asymmetric ring of stars. A type of pattern.

Rising Effect - This usually talks about a tail to an aerial shell, but can also be whistles, crackling, or small shells.

Roundel Shell -  Is an aerial shell that contains several reports that are timed to burst in a ring pattern one after another.

Salute - Loud Explosion. Louder than a report. No color just a single white flash.

Saturn - A star shell with a ring around it.

Serpent -  A small tube that is filled with a colored composition and maybe a report. These are fired from aerial shells and fly in a random pattern.

Shell of Shells – a large shell that contains smaller bombette shells as well as stars. When the first shell burst it releases the other smaller shells and stars, within a few seconds the smaller shells burst. Not to be confused with Multi-break shells.

Shooters - Bright magnesium stars that shoot across the sky.

Siateens - Small, loud reports specifically timed and patterned

Spinner- Is another name for devices with wings that rotate very fast and rise into the sky. Also an aerial effect the casing is similar to the devices with wings to rotate the flames shoot out of the side.

Strobe - Stars flash multiple times. Strobes "On, Off, On"

Tail - With some aerial fireworks during the accent their is a effect that looks like it has  a tail. Rising column of sparks on aerial shells

Tourbillion
- Serpents to reports in a ring pattern. aka whirlwinds.

Transformation - Glittering effect that changes in intensity and duration.

Trunk - A rising effect that is typical seen on willow and palm tree aerial shells.

Whirlwind
tube that spins in the air with sparks. This produces a tornado like effect.

Whistle – a partly hollow tube, that produces a high pitch whistling sound. Produced by burning a composition made with potassium benzoate, potassium salicylate.

Willow - This effect has failing trails of effect. Long burning made normally with a high amount of charcoal. Looks like a gigantic willow tree.

 



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