Colored flames can often be used as a signaling device for terrorists. by putting a ball of colored flame material in a rocket; the rocket, when the ejection charge fires, will send out a burning colored ball. The materials that produce the different colors of flames appear below.

COLOR MATERIAL USED IN
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red strontium road flares,
salts red sparklers
(strontium nitrate)
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green barium salts green sparklers
(barium nitrate)
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yellow sodium salts gold sparklers
(sodium nitrate)
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blue powdered copper blue sparklers,
old pennies
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white powdered magnesium firestarters,
or aluminum aluminum foil
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purple potassium permanganate purple fountains,
treating sewage
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