Talk:Bottle rocket

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So, if bottle rockets are the explosive rockets that you shoot out of bottles, what do you call the rockets that you make out of compressed air and 2 liter soda bottles?

I don't know if you want some bottle rocket references from pop culture. But I came here trying to understand what this song might mean: "And she was born in a bottle-rocket, 1929, With wings that ringed around a socket Right between her spine All drenched in milk in holy water pouring from the sky, I know that she will live forever, She won’t ever die,"

-Ghost, sung by Neutral Milk Hotel

Any thoughts? (full lyrics at http://www.lyricsdownload.com/neutral-milk-hotel-ghost-lyrics.html for instance) Jodi.a.schneider 22:58, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Phosphorus?

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the fuel is generally a phosphorus based black-gun powder

Do we have a reference for this? I am familiar with typical compositions used in fireworks, but not with bottle rockets specifically, and this seems suspect. I can believe that it's a black powder type propellant, but I don't believe phosphorus, especially in a 1.4g product. 24.91.135.162 10:21, 24 June 2007 (UTC)