print email comment close Kaboom! URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/kaboom/ Description: Satisfy your curiosity about fireworks at this site, which explains the anatomy of an actual firework and the chemicals that make it work. Includes an interview with a demolition expert who tells how buildings are brought down by using small explosions to make it implode. Also provides a transcript of the NOVA public television program on which the site is based. Publisher: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); WGBH Science Unit Library of Congress Subject Headings: Fireworks LII classic content Wrecking LII Database Information: Record 11098 created by on 07/08/2002 Last modification on 06/29/2005 Published: 07/08/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/11098