It is decomposed by heat, and is largely used in pyrotechny for the preparation of green fire. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The efficiency of a given course of training is indicated by the power and endurance which it imparts, -- not by such pyrotechny as may be let off before an examining committee. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, “Very superior pyrotechny this evening”?. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
But there are few who can witness this terrific pyrotechny of heaven with a steady nerve. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.] Reference
I shall create some surprising effects if my old cunning in pyrotechny has not forsaken me. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar] Reference
Having seen Venetian pyrotechny, one realizes that all fireworks should be ignited over water. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
Viewing pyrotechny either as a science or an art, there is undoubtedly required in its prosecution much skill and practice. From Wordnik.com. [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference
Teachers of chemistry will note with pleasure the questions which Cutbush arranged for his student corps, particularly those questions which had to do with pyrotechny. From Wordnik.com. [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference
The carousals of the army and navy lasted for three days, at the new Doge's cost, the resources of the fleet having no difficulty in running to every kind of pageantry and pyrotechny. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Venice] Reference
As this subject, however interesting to the theoretical pyrotechnist, cannot be understood without a knowledge of chemistry, it is obvious that that science is a powerful aid to pyrotechny. From Wordnik.com. [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference
And that a species of pyrotechny was resorted to by those who sought to imitate flight we have proof in the following recipe for a flying body given by a Doctor, eke a Friar, in Paris in the days of our King John. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation] Reference
A Yankee, with the soaring imagination of that imaginative race, proposes to set fire to the Horseshoe Fall, and thus get up a grand nocturnal exhibition, to which the Surrey Zoological pyrotechny would bear the same ratio as a sky-rocket to Vesuvius. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference
The Court knew, and every one else knew, that this was pure pyrotechny, and Mr. Bailey knew that best of all; but, though the Bench is swift to speak, slow to hear, it felt obliged, in a case of this public interest, to sit by, and be witnesses of the exhibition. From Wordnik.com. [Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire] Reference
Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, "very superior pyrotechny this evening!". From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
Indeed, chemistry is indispensable to pyrotechny. ". From Wordnik.com. [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference
Said Rufus stopping short and facing them with eyes that for the moment had established a natural pyrotechny of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
– said Rufus stopping short and facing them with eyes that for the moment had established a natural pyrotechny of their own. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
"On this head, that of the application of chemistry to pyrotechny, we claim so much originality, as, so far as we know, to have been the first, who applied the principles of chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823] Reference
In ultra-Catholic countries the descent of the sacred fire is represented by some secretly arranged pyrotechny, and the credulous laity, believing they have witnessed a miraculous display, eagerly solicit Paschal candles lit from it; and in imitation of the ancient festivities in honor of the return of spring, all Catholic churches, and most of Protestant ones, are adorned with flowers, the bells ring out their merriest peals, and "Gloria in. From Wordnik.com. [Astral Worship] Reference
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