Picatinny researchers are working to remove the harmful chemicals barium nitrate and potassium perchlorate from the IM-28 baseline mixture and replace them with a chemical known as sodium ...

DMD Systems, a company cofounded by former Los Alamos explosives chemist Mike Hiskey, currently produces a line of fireworks that are perchlorate-free and contain about one-tenth the amount of ...

It’s hardly a household name, but Perchlorate is a chemical that helps rockets reach for the stars. It's also known to enter ...

Around 67% of the 196 food samples tested had “measurable” levels of perchlorate, though a single serving of none of the foods exceeded the EPA’s recommended daily reference dose.

Green-tinted fireworks get their color from the metal barium and burn thanks to the oxidizer perchlorate, the same chemical that NASA puts in the solid rockets used to launch astronauts into space.

Scientists have made significant advances in low-smoke and perchlorate-free technologies, prompted by the military, which uses flares and other pyrotechnics, and by Walt Disney Co., which stages ...

A case study found that within 1 hour of fireworks displays, strontium levels in the air increased 120 times, magnesium 22 times, barium 12 times, potassium 11 times, and copper (Cu) 6 times more ...

Perchlorate and barium. Perchlorate, which has been used as an excellent explosive agent, is unfortunately very unsafe. It is known to affect thyroid gland function ...

As July 4th approaches, Americans look to the skies. Throughout the country, fireworks will be launched in celebration of the nation's independence. But what goes up must come down. Reporter Eric ...

Barium, which provides a ... researchers found that perchlorate levels spiked more than 1000 times higher than normal in parts of a small Oklahoma lake within 14 hours after a Fourth of July ...

Perchlorate has been found in infant formula. Sander van der Wel/Flickr, CC BY-SA. In the United States, perchlorate can even be used in food packaging. Despite well-founded objections from a ...

The 35-year-old federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose what scientists say are serious health risks — and still be legal. The New York Times ...