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Perfect to Add to All Your Outdoor Equipment |
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Perfect to Add to All Your Outdoor Equipment |
We add magnesium to the flint firestarting tool to provide a source of extremely flammable material. This acts as a primary fuel to provide an even hotter starting medium to ignite your tinder. The magnesium provides an extremely hot (5400 degrees) flame to ignite even wet materials. This ranks the Flint Firestarter tool in a survival firestarting class by itself.
Magnesium is an ultra lightweight flammable metal. The magnesium used for our flint tools is an alloy, which means other metals have been combined with it. This creates a more controlled burn, rather than an explosion like pure magnesium powder will.
Magnesium will actually burn water. At 5400 degrees fahrenheit it separates the two
componets of water, oxygen and hydrogen, and uses them as fuel. Thus, a magnesium flame
cannot be extinguished with water, making it a perfect material for starting a campfire
when everything is wet. Please click on the picture to the right to see the magnesium
being used. Note this is a large file and will take a few minutes to load at 28.800 baud.
(editor's note - I've tried to keep the number of frames as small as possible to reduce the loading time, and I've cropped away some important parts in doing so. When you see the finger above the flame, and the flame brightens, that's water being dripped on to the burning magnesium. You'll note that the flame increases when the water hits)
We have the magnesium for the Flint Firestarters made in a light density rod so it is very easy to scrape it into shavings for fuel. This is easily accomplished with the steel blade that comes with the tool. Bunched together and ignited by the flint spark, the magnesium produces a white hot starter fire roughly eight times hotter than a match or more than twice the temperature needed to melt iron.
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