Safety match
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A safety match is a small device to make fire safely.
Typically it is a wooden stick (usually sold in match boxes) or stiff paper stick (usually sold in matchbooks) coated at one end with a material, the match head, often containing the element phosphorus, that will ignite from the heat of friction if rubbed ("struck") against a suitable surface.
Matches are sold in tobacconists and other shops. Matches are rarely sold singularly; they are sold in multiples, packaged in either match boxes or in matchbooks.
[edit] External links
- History of Chemical Matches. Chemistry.about.com. Retrieved on November 11, 2005.
- The History of Matches. Inventors.about.com. Retrieved on November 11, 2005.
- History of matchbooks. Matchcovers.com/first100.htm. Retrieved on January 21, 2006.
- The Rathkamp Matchcover Society. Matchcover.org. Retrieved on January 21, 2006.
- A site demonstrating jet propulsion using matches and foil
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