Fire making

thumb|Igniting a match on the striking strip of a matchbox

right|thumb|A piece of flint long, weighing 171 grams

thumb|An ignited lighter thumb|upright|Disposable lighter A lighter is a portable device which uses mechanical or electrical means to create a controlled flame, and can be used to ignite a variety of flammable items, such as cigarettes, butane gas, fireworks, candles, or campfires. A lighter typically consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable liquid, a compressed flammable gas, or in rarer cases a flammable solid (e.g. rope in a trench lighter); a means of ignition to produce the flame; and some provision for extinguishing the flame or else controlling it to such a degre

The mineral pyrite ( ), or iron pyrite, also known as '''Fool's Gold''', is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral.

Chert () is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Chert is characteristically of biological origin, but may also occur inorganically as a chemical precipitate or a diagenetic replacement, as in petrified wood. Where chert occurs in chalk or marl, it is usually called flint.

piece of carbon steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of flint, chert or similar rock

Nichrome (also known as NiCr, nickel-chromium or chromium-nickel) is a family of alloys of nickel and chromium (and occasionally iron) commonly used as resistance wire, heating elements in devices like toasters, electrical kettles and space heaters, in some dental restorations (fillings) and in a few other applications.

thumb|Birch bark being used as tinder in a campfire Tinder is easily combustible material used to start a fire. Tinder is a finely divided, open material which will begin to glow under a shower of sparks. Air is gently wafted over the glowing tinder until it bursts into flame. The flaming tinder is used to ignite kindling, which in turn is used to ignite the bulk material, to produce a fire.

thumb | right | alt=Plutonium pyrophoricity (spontaneously burning in contact with air, causes it to glow like an ember). | Plutonium pyrophoricity (spontaneously burning in contact with air, causes it to glow like an ember). A substance is pyrophoric (from , , 'fire-bearing') if it ignites spontaneously in air at or below (for gases) or within five minutes after coming into contact with air (for liquids and solids). Examples are organolithium compounds and triethylborane. Pyrophoric materials are often water-reactive as well and will ignite when they contact water or humid air. They can be ha

thumb|right|Sheet iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C. thumb|Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint. This type was used during the Second Boer War|Boer War due to a scarcity of matches

thumb|Spark trails from a cigarette lighter thumb|Ferrocerium "flint" from a lighter Ferrocerium (also known in Europe as Auermetall) is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy of mischmetal (cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, other trace lanthanides and some iron – about 95% lanthanides and 5% iron) hardened by blending in oxides of iron and/or magnesium. When struck with a harder material, friction produces hot fragments that oxidize rapidly when exposed to the oxygen in the air, producing sparks that can reach temperatures of . The effect is due to the low ignition temperature of cerium, between

process of starting a fire artificially

thumb|240px|right|Fomes fomentarius Amadou is a spongy material derived from Fomes fomentarius and similar fungi that grow on the bark of coniferous and angiosperm trees, and have the appearance of a horse's hoof (thus the name "hoof fungus"). It is also known as the "tinder fungus" and is useful for starting slow-burning fires. The fungus must be removed from the tree, the hard outer layer scraped off, and then thin strips of the inner spongy layer cut for use as tinder.

mechanical machine for igniting tinder by adiabatic compression

prehistoric form of drilling tool

device using electricity to ignite a combustible compound

fire making device with rotating rod

Firemaking device

firelighting tool

method of ignition