Match with fire

See also: Wick

The wick is a string or a Corde of fibers twisted, braided loosely, that one put in a Bougie, a Briquet, a Oil lamp or oil or old a Firearm.

A wick with the advantage of drawing a constant quantity from grease of the oil lamp towards the flame by Capillarity. Materials commonly used to build wicks are the Coton, the Papier.
C' is Friendly Argand (1750-1803), physicist and chemist Swiss, which substituted for the wicks full, which gave much smoke and little light, with the wicks in the shape of hollow roll.
D' other materials, those non flammable, can be used their properties of capillarity. The wick at the end of the torch of the fire-eaters is generally of Kevlar, a product very absorbent which resists fire very well.

Wicks were used to pare fire in gun S or other firearms the such Arquebuse, or to light explosive charges.

See also: Wick (pyrotechny), Platinum with wick

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