INTERVIEW WITH PYROTECHNIC CHEMIST JOHN CONKLING

摘要

During the past 30 years, John Conkling, a fireworks expert at Washington College, Chestertown, Md., has made more than 40 trips to China—the world's major producer of fireworks—to meet with officials from the Chinese fireworks industry. He is the author of The Chemistry of Pyrotechnics—Basic Principles and Theory, which many consider the most definitive reference on pyrotechnics, and he holds nine patents dealing with energetic chemical systems. Conkling explains what pyrotechnic chemists do.