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.
CH8230	Red Gum, air milled (Acaroides, accroides gum, accroides resin, or yacca resin) [85% para-coumaric ester of xanthoresinotannol] Reddish brown, extremely fine powder Used as a fuel and binder. Natural vegetable gum whose solvent is alcohol. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$16.89	$15.54	$14.53
CH8231	Red Gum, chunky style (Acaroides, accroides gum, accroides resin, or yacca resin) [85% para-coumaric ester of xanthoresinotannol] Reddish brown, lumps Used as a fuel and binder. Can easily be screened or coffee-milled into a fine powder. Natural vegetable gum whose solvent is alcohol. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$11.67	$10.74	$10.04
CH8236	Rice Hulls When coated with burst-powder, rice hulls are used to break shells. We pack them (the hulls, without the burst powder) in 4 pound bags (about 5 gallons volume). Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	4 lb. bag	$10.95	$10.95	$10.95
CH8238	Rice Starch, Soluble Glutinous White powder (mizinko, SGRS) Superior binder commonly used in Japan; sometimes as a glue. Frequently called for in formulas in Shimizu's book, Fireworks: The Art, Science, and Technique." Solvent is water. Order Mon-Thur by 12:00 EST - Use Tomorrow - Overnight Shipping Available	lb.	$8.75	$8.05	$7.52