Celebrating with green, eye catching sparklers (video)

Sparklers can be a lot of fun glimmering, fizzing and spitting out arcs of light from handheld sticks or tubes on the ground. But the metals that theyre usually made with limit what the sparks can look like. Now, researchers in ACS Omega report that rareearth metals in alloy powders can produce flashes that shift from golden to green and continuously branch. Customizing the Appearance of Sparks with Binary Metal Alloys , Eike G. Hubner, (corresponding author) You might also like: Headline Science: Ingenious: ACS Fall 2022 Media Briefings Archived: Chemical Engineering News Produced by the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistryrelated information and research through its multiple databases, peerreviewed journals and scientific conferences. Join the American Chemical Society