{"id":35792,"date":"2018-11-01T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35792"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:19:03","slug":"after-sc-order-focus-on-chemicals-in-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-sc-order-focus-on-chemicals-in-firecrackers\/","title":{"rendered":"After SC order, focus on chemicals in firecrackers:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/after-sc-order-focus-on-chemicals-in-firecrackers\/article19441370.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After SC order, focus on chemicals in firecrackers:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court barred manufacturers from using five specified chemicals \u2018in any form whatsoever\u2019 to prevent air pollution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The apex court ban the use of <\/span><b>antimony, lithium, mercury, arsenic and lead<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the manufacture of firecrackers to prevent air pollution has turned the focus on what chemicals are used to produce spectacular visual effects and noise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Supreme Court Bench of Justices Madan B. Lakur and Deepak Gupta had on July 31, in an order, directed that no firecrackers manufactured by the respondents shall contain the chemicals in any form, whatsoever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The court entrusted the Petroleum and Explosive Safety Organisation (PESO) with the responsibility of ensuring compliance particularly in Sivakasi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 90% of cracker production is done in Sivakasi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court also noted it appeared that no standards have been laid down by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) with regard to air pollution caused by the bursting of firecrackers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Impact of using chemicals:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sound and light show is produced by chemicals such as sulphur, aluminium powder and charcoal (used as fuel), besides potassium nitrate and barium nitrate (as oxidizing agents).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aluminium powder, sulphur and potassium nitrate go into noise making crackers, while barium nitrate and strontium nitrate (red) emit light<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aluminium powder is used in sparklers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A combination of barium nitrate and strontium nitrate is varying proportions produces different colours.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Potassium chlorate and potassium perchlorate are friction-sensitive and accident prone, if used in combination with sulphur.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After SC order, focus on chemicals in firecrackers: Context: The Supreme Court barred manufacturers from using five specified chemicals \u2018in any form whatsoever\u2019 to prevent air pollution. Introduction: The apex court ban the use of antimony, lithium, mercury, arsenic and lead in the manufacture of firecrackers to prevent air pollution has turned the focus on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-sc-order-focus-on-chemicals-in-firecrackers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">After SC order, focus on chemicals in firecrackers:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704847662},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}