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  2. Colored fire - Wikipedia

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    Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic effect used in stage productions, fireworks and by fire performers the world over. Generally, the color of a flame may be red, orange, blue, yellow, or white, and is dominated by blackbody radiation from soot and steam.

  3. Black Fire I - Wikipedia

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    Background [ edit ] Black Fire I was sold to a private collector [ 3 ] for $84.2 million ($84,165,000) on May 13, 2014, at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City , [ 4 ] after a telephone bidding war, exceeding the estimations of $50 million made by the organizing house, Christie’s .

  4. History of red - Wikipedia

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    Red played an important role in Chinese philosophy. It was believed that the world was composed of five elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth, and that each had a color. Red was associated with fire. Each emperor chose the color that his fortune-tellers believed would bring the most prosperity and good fortune to his reign.

  5. Opal - Wikipedia

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    Fire opal is a transparent to translucent opal with warm body colors of yellow to orange to red. Although fire opals don't usually show any play of color, they occasionally exhibit bright green flashes. The most famous source of fire opals is the state of Querétaro in Mexico; these opals are commonly called Mexican fire opals. [47]

  6. Color in Chinese culture - Wikipedia

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    The taijitu uses black and white or red to represent the unity of yin and yang. Ancient Chinese people regarded black as the king of colors and honored black more consistently than any other color. Laozi said "know the white, keep the black", and Taoists believe black is the color of the Tao. [citation needed]

  7. Blackfire (DC Comics) - Wikipedia

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    Generate and control of light purple fire Blackfire ( Komand'r ) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics . [ 1 ] She is the older sister and archenemy of Teen Titans member Koriand'r/Starfire and of lesser-known youngest sibling Crown Prince Ryand'r/Darkfire.

  8. Anarchist symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Red-and-black bisected flags at an anti-austerity march in London, 2011 The colors black and red have been used by anarchists since at least the late 1800s when they were used on cockades by Italian anarchists in the 1874 Bologna insurrection and in 1877 when anarchists entered the Italian town of Letino carrying red and black flags to promote ...

  9. Red - Wikipedia

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    Red, black and white were ... The vexilloid of the Roman Empire had a red background with ... Red is the color of extreme fire danger in Australia; new black/red ...