Smokes
Colored smokes
|
Shimizu |
Pihko |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Pihko |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Pihko |
Faber |
| color |
Blue |
Blue |
Green |
Red |
Red |
Violet |
Yellow |
Yellow |
Yellow |
Brown |
| Potassium chlorate |
28 |
33 |
28 |
25 |
24 |
26 |
|
|
24 |
|
| Potassium nitrate |
|
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|
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|
|
25 |
43 |
|
47.4 |
| Sulfur |
|
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|
|
|
16 |
10 |
|
3.9 |
| Realgar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
59 |
37 |
|
|
| Wheat flour |
15 |
|
15 |
15 |
|
15 |
|
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|
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| Lactose |
|
25 |
|
|
16 |
|
|
|
16 |
|
| Quinoline Yellow |
|
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|
|
43 |
|
| Rhodamine B |
|
|
|
24 |
40 |
16 |
|
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|
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| Para Red |
|
|
|
36 |
|
21 |
|
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|
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| Methylene Blue |
17 |
|
17 |
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| Phthalo Blue |
|
40 |
|
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|
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| Indigo Pure |
40 |
|
30 |
|
|
22 |
|
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|
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| Auramine |
|
|
10 |
|
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| Charcoal |
|
|
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|
4 |
|
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| Sand |
|
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|
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|
4 |
| Calcium carbonate |
|
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|
4.9 |
| Borax |
|
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|
10.6 |
| Pitch |
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|
29.2 |
| Sodium bicarbonate |
|
|
|
|
4 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
| Dextrin |
|
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
6 |
2 |
|
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White smokes
|
Shidlovsky |
Becher |
Lancaster |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
| Potassium chlorate |
20 |
40 |
29 |
|
|
|
| Potassium nitrate |
|
|
|
|
48.5 |
66 |
| Ammonium chloride |
50 |
45 |
|
|
|
|
| Hexachloroethane |
|
|
|
50 |
|
|
| Zinc powder |
|
|
|
28 |
|
|
| Zinc oxide |
|
|
|
22 |
|
|
| Sulfur |
|
|
|
|
48.5 |
|
| Realgar |
|
|
|
|
3 |
13 |
| Naphthalene |
20 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Montan wax |
|
12 |
|
|
|
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| Kieselguhr |
|
3 |
|
|
|
|
| Charcoal |
10 |
|
|
|
|
5 |
| Lampblack |
|
|
|
|
|
5 |
| Cinnamic acid |
|
|
27 |
|
|
|
| Lactose |
|
|
29 |
|
|
|
| Kaolin |
|
|
15 |
|
|
|
| Dextrin |
|
|
|
|
|
11 |
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Grey smokes
|
Izzo |
Ellern |
| Potassium nitrate |
10 |
|
| Hexachloroethane |
50 |
45.5 |
| Zinc powder |
25 |
|
| Zinc oxide |
10 |
45.5 |
| Calcium silicide |
|
9 |
| Colophony resin |
5 |
|
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Black smokes
|
Lancaster |
Lancaster |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
Shimizu |
| Potassium perchlorate |
|
|
56 |
|
|
|
57 |
| Potassium chlorate |
|
|
|
44 |
|
|
|
| Potassium nitrate |
|
60 |
|
|
|
|
|
| Hexachloroethane |
60 |
|
|
|
62 |
62 |
|
| Anthracene |
20 |
|
33 |
|
|
23 |
40 |
| Naphthalene |
|
|
|
26 |
23 |
|
|
| Magnesium powder |
20 |
|
|
|
15 |
15 |
|
| Sulfur |
|
3 |
11 |
|
|
|
|
| Antimony trisulfide |
|
|
|
24 |
|
|
|
| Sawdust |
|
26 |
|
|
|
|
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| Liquid tar |
|
7 |
|
|
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|
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| Charcoal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
| Red gum |
|
4 |
|
|
|
|
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| Dextrin |
|
|
|
6 |
|
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