How To Make A Smoke Bomb

Want to make a smoke bomb? It’ll be really cool, I promise you.

A smoke bomb is a firework designed to produce smoke upon ignition. Smoke bombs are useful to military units, airsoft games, paintball games, and self defense.

Colored smoke devices use a formula that consists of an oxidizer (typically potassium chlorate, KClO3), a fuel (generally sugar), a moderant (such as sodium bicarbonate) to keep the reaction from getting too hot, and a powdered organic dye. The burning of this mixture evaporates the dye and forces it out of the device, where it condenses in the atmosphere to form a “smoke” of finely dispersed particles.

First you’ll have to gather the ingredients:

Potassium Nitrate (salt peter found in garden shops)
Sugar (found everywhere)
Baking Soda
Organic Powdered Dye (found in hobby shops)

Time to start cooking…..

Mix Potassium and Sugar – 60g Potassium to 40g Sugar
Put on a LOW heat and stir

Sugar will start to caramelize
Keep stirring until it looks like peanut butter

Add 1 spoon of baking soda – this will slow combustion
Add 3 large spoons of dye (orange or blue works best)

Mix very thoroughly

Fill a card tube with mix
Push a thick pen into mix

Leave to set for 1 hour
The shape it has formed using the pen as a mold will give best results

Remove pen

Insert firework fuse – secure with cotton wool

Wrap tube with duct tape, making sure there is a hole at the top

Watch this video before you begin:

Easy Colorful Smoke Bomb – These bloopers are hilarious

Have fun and BE SAFE!

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