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An airship, or dirigible, is a lighter-than-air powered craft typically using helium, or historically hydrogen, as the lifting gas.

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Why is there bronze powder aboard blimps to be used as pyrotechnics?

I'm reading the airship pilot manual for the Goodyear K-Type blimps and in the table of "Empty Weight", at page 18 under the heading "Pyrotechnics", there are listed "24 Bronze Powder Markers" for a total …