It's also conductive, which is a pretty good recipe for disaster...

yea, but what else is there to do for people new to pyro. i mean you dont want them (me) blowing themselvses up with like fertalizer bombs, and blackpowder is probably not as fun as flashpowder so whatever. HOWEVER i do have a question.....is the shit thats in those loud as hell firework screamer things (piccilo petes) flash powder? i think it is, so the real question is it pure enough to have fun with?

No, that's whistle mix. You can make it at home as well, but it requires more exotic ingredients.

oh....thats no fun.....somewhere else on the forums...well...actually many places on the forums people said it was flash. but will it be explosive or just kinda burn. cause i lit some of it a couple times, but it wasnt like actually in anything so it kinda just burned really really fast and made a bunch of smoke