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Definition of Red fire
1. Noun. Combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworks.
Definition of Red fire
1. Noun. a chemical mixture used in fireworks and flares that burns with a bright red flame. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Fire
Literary usage of Red fire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"red fire. I. Forty parts of nitrate of strontium, 15 of sulphur, 5 of chlorate
... The above 3 mixtures for red fire possess the advantage of not emitting ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1894)
"We finally concluded to get a lot of red fire in the village, sail out of the
harbor late in the afternoon, so as to get to the regular track of the ..."
3. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"... Among the Ignorant—Conflagration of the World Feared.-—-Impromptu
Prayer-Meetings.—Prodigious Star-Shower at Boston.—Myriads of Blood-red fire-Bails. ..."
4. Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis by Academy of Science of St. Louis (1892)
"The red smoke and the red fire, as first seen by the Kasi/ta, are referred to again
... The fire they had seen upon the mountain and saved was a red fire, ..."
5. American Druggist (1888)
"Will you kindly give me a receipt for making red fire of the best kind: 1, for
such as is ordinarily used on the street and 2, for such as is used in ..."
6. The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire edited by Arthur William A'Beckett (1867)
"He gazeth on the red fire, he sigheth at the visions, his eyes are filled ...
He looketh, in the red fire for beauty and for goodness, for honour and for ..."
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