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Visible Spectra of Standard Navy Colored Flares
Author(s) -
Webster Henry A.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.56
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1521-4087
pISSN - 0721-3115
DOI - 10.1002/prep.19850100102
Subject(s) - navy , flare , spectral line , solar flare , astrophysics , colored , physics , materials science , astronomy , composite material , history , archaeology
The visible spectra, color data and output powers from standard U.S. Navy red, green and yellow signal flares are presented. The spectra were taken under essentially identical conditions on actual inservice U.S. Navy devices. The dominant emissions accounting for the output power in the flares are from the molecular bands of the alkaline earth oxides, hydroxides and chlorides in the red and green flares and from atomic sodium in the yellow flare.