Fire striker
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A fire striker or fire steel is a tool used in fire making, consisting of a piece of steel that can be struck against a flint, chert, or other hard rock in order to generate sparks.
Assorted reproduction fire steels typical of the ancient and medieval periods
Late 18th-century fire steels from Brittany
Fire striker and flint used in Dalarna, Sweden, in 1916
Ferrocerium
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Ferrocerium is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy of mischmetal hardened by blending in oxides of iron and/or magnesium. When struck with a harder material, friction produces hot fragments that oxidize rapi
Fire striker
…Fire piston Ferrocerium Order of the Golden Fleece (whose collar consists of fire steels linked by flints…
Ferrocerium "flint" from a lighter
A spark lighter in action
A mora knife with a ferrocerium rod that can be stored in the handle