User:TheFreeman193/sandbox/Firelighter



A firelighter is a consumable, often solid fuel item used for fire making. The definition may range from primitive fuels such as wood shavings coated with wax, to modern consumer products like the hexamine fuel tablet or Zip cube. Firelighters may be used to start a wood or coal fire in a fireplace, wood-burning stove, solid-fuel portable stove, or open-air fire. A firelighter can take the place of tinder in the tinder–kindling–fuel paradigm, being easily ignitable and producing sufficient energy to ignite surrounding fuels. Desirable properties in firelighters include prolonged burn times, resistance to extinguishment in low-oxygen conditions, resistance to water, low odor (both when stored and burning), stability in storage, and low toxicity.

As a hazardous material, firelighters are assigned a UN number: 2623 ("Firelighters; solid with flammable liquid").