Making fireworks requires chemicals with very specific properties and characteristics. Skylighter offers a wide variety of chemicals used to make fireworks and pyrotechnic devices. Here you will find all the common oxidizers and fuels such as potassium perchlorate, potassium nitrate (saltpeter), sodium nitrate, strontium nitrate, aluminum and other metal powders used in making fireworks. But Skylighter can also provide you with many less common and hard to find fireworks chemicals such as Parlon, saran, red gum, starpol, Chlorowax, and dozens of others. More resources on making fireworks and using pyrotechnic chemicals.

Unless otherwise noted, all fireworks and pyrotechnic chemicals come packed in a twist-tied plastic bag in a sealed, reusable plastic tub. Some, very light-weight, high-volume pyrotechnic chemicals (like air float charcoal, lampblack, and Cab-O-Sil) are packed in boxes instead of tubs. Each container is labeled, shows the chemical's safety rating, and contains a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for that chemical. The pyrotechnic chemicals we supply are generally technical grade, sometimes better. Technical grade is generally defined as "chemicals of reasonable purity." Our fireworks chemicals' descriptions have been excerpted from The Illustrated Dictionary of Pyrotechnics and Fireworks: The Art, Science and Technique.

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Item No.	Description	Unit	1 - 4	5 - 9	10 +	Qty.
CH8120	Gilsonite (asphaltum) Dark brown powder Source for carbon fuel. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$8.75	$8.05	$7.52
CH8125	Graphite [C] Dark gray powder Used to opacify rocket fuel grains. The opacifier accelerates the rate of surface burning and prevents infrared energy from penetrating the propellant grain and causing it to explode. -325 mesh, average particle size 5 microns. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$15.70	$14.44	$13.50
CH8058	Grog (Castable refractory, Wahlcast^TM) Fine tan powder mixed with pea-sized aggregate Firebrick material used in making high temperature nozzles and plugs. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$5.38	$5.38	$5.38
CH5515	Guanidine Nitrate [CH₅N₃�HNO₃] (guanidine mononitrate; minomethanamidine nitrate). White to off-white crystals Oxidizer used in some blue formulas and high powered rocket fuels. Dissolved in methanol, it will burn with a blue flame. Ground Shipping Only - No Air or Overnight	lb.	$18.39	$16.92	$15.82
Item No.	Description	Unit	1 - 4	5 - 9	10 +	Qty.
CH8128	Guar Gum Pale yellow powder Used as a water-soluble binder. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$10.59	$9.74	$9.11
CH8131	Gum Arabic (acacia gum) tan colored powder A natural vegetable gum used as a water-soluble binder. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$16.29	$14.99	$14.01