For white smoke, a compound of the chemicals potassium chlorate, lactose, and rosin (also known as Greek pitch) is used, ...

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has confirmed the recall of two products: the Tissue Box Toy included with ...

The Vatican’s tradition of using black and white smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel chimney continues to announce the ...

The chimney smoke from the Sistine Chapel is the most watched signal during conclave, which started on May 7. Only two colors ...

The smoke is created by burning the ballots, and originally just meant that no pope had been elected. It was only in the conclave of 1914, which elected Benedict XV, that different smoke colors were ...