CSIR Develops Green Crackers

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has come up with new and improved formulations in the manufacture of sound-emitting crackers and other fireworks keeping in view the pollution hazard and health risks.

Green Crackers

  • Traditionally, firecrackers have been made with barium nitrate, antimony and a range of metals that have been linked to respiratory diseases and even cancer.
  • A group of research institutes of the CSIR had begun work on ‘green crackers,’ namely fireworks without barium nitrate.
  • The Nagpur-based NEERI eventually hit upon formulations that substituted barium nitrate with potassium nitrate and zeolite.
  • The ‘green’ versions of the ‘flower pot’, ....
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