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- Title
Fire Kindling<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Lunt, Joseph R.; Haley, Dennis C.
- Abstract
The article presents information on various experiments related to fire kindling. According to the author, the best material for kindling a fire with a bow and drill is Yucca wood, which grows on the plains and foothills of New Mexico and Arizona. In the experiment named kindling fire with a lens, a piece of tissue paper was placed on a table or a window sill, where the sun's rays fall directly on it than a piece of charred cloth or tinder on the paper was laid. Then the lens was moved back and forth a few inches from the tinder, until the sun's rays coming through the lens was focused on the tinder. Then the lens was held steady in the position until the tinder began to glow. The amount of heat received by the earth from the sun in a year would, if evenly distributed over all latitudes, melt a layer of ice one hundred twenty four feet thick over the entire surface of the earth. In 1805, the first chemical match was invented in Paris. It was simply a wooden splint tipped with sulphur and an ignition mixture of sugar and potassium chlorate. In one of the experiment John Walker, an English druggist, produced a match which was a wooden splint tipped with sulphur and an ignition mixture of one part potassium chlorate and two parts antimony sulphide.
- Subjects
ARIZONA; FIRE; COMBUSTION; TISSUE paper; SULFUR; POTASSIUM; ANTIMONY trisulfide; SULFIDES; FOOTHILLS; HEAT
- Publication
Science Education, 1930, Vol 14, Issue 3, p551
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730140312