The shader presented in this recipe makes a sphere look like an explosion. If you really want to use it, you should couple it with some scripts in order to get the most out of it. The best thing to do is to create an explosion object and make it into a prefab so that you can reuse it every time you need to. You can do this by dragging the sphere back into the Project window. Once it is done, you can create as many explosions as you want using the Instantiate() function.
It is worth noticing, however, that all the objects with the same material share the same look. If you have multiple explosions at the same time, they should not use the same material. When you are instantiating a new explosion, you should also duplicate its ...