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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