Definition
A crossette is a comet that, midway through its flight, bursts into three or four fragments flying off in a cross, each continuing on its way with its own trail. The star is drilled with a cavity holding a small break charge, ignited when the burn reaches it. In a shell, a crown of crossettes yields a chrysanthemum whose every ray splits into a cross; in a cake or candle, crossettes climb in a column before shattering into multiple sprays, filling the sky with few tubes. Colours range from classic silver and gold to coloured crossettes, more recent and trickier to manufacture. They are found in cakes of 25 to 50 mm, candles of 30 to 60 mm and shells of 75 to 200 mm.
In practice, for the display company
A crossette cake delivers plenty of volume for a single cue, making it an economical filler for mid-level sequences. PyroDesk identifies the term in multilingual supplier labels at import, and PyroSimulator renders the mid-flight cross split, which matters when judging the density of a tableau without over-ordering.