An explosion in a manhole at Texas Tech University sent neon colored substance into the air before explosions occired.

On Wednesday, the Texas Tech campus in Lubbock had to evacuate after an explosion coming from a manhole caused multiple fires ...

Adding the element strontium to a color pyrotechnic mix produces a red flame; copper, blue; barium, green; and sodium for yellow. Too much or too little of the chemicals make significant changes ...

Without this fuel, the flame will go out. The colors of a flame are caused by bits of wax molecules that didn’t get completely reacted. These glow a certain color when they get to be a certain ...