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
Flint
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Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was wide
Fire striker
…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. Before the invention of matches, percussion fire making was often used to start fires. Before…
A sample of Miorcani flint from the Cenomanian chalky marl layer of the Moldavian Plateau (c. 7.5 cm (3.0 in) wide)
A piece of flint 9–10 cm (3.5–3.9 in) long, weighing 171 grams
Silicified remains of algae and silica pseudomorph after halite in flint. Pebble of Loire near Marcigny, France. Image width: about 5 mm
Pebble beach made up of flint nodules eroded from the nearby chalk cliffs, Cape Arkona, Rügen, northeast Germany