red fire

1. 1.

   combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworks

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Questions about red fire

What does red fire mean?

red fire means "combustible material (usually salts of lithium or strontium) that burns bright red; used in flares and fireworks".

Is red fire a common word?

red fire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.