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In the cars rode white-hooded figures, distributing threats lettered in red, twirling a suggestive hangman’s noose. At 25 street corners the Ku-Kluxers paused to plant and ignite fiery crosses.

Historically, the white smoke was created by burning the ballots together with dry straw. The black smoke was made from the ballots, wet straw, and with the addition of pitch to darken the color.

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

In that case, the ballots are burned with three different chemicals; one is potassium perchlorate, then there is anthracene, and finally, sulfur. There used to be a yellow smoke, too (fumata gialla).

Black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel's chimney on Wednesday, signaling that the College of Cardinals had not elected a pope.