Lighter

See also: Lighter (homonymy)

A lighter is an autonomous device Pyrotechnique, intended to produce a Flamme. The Carburant used is stored within a tank, and the Comburant is the Dioxygène present in the air. The lighter is intended to be transportable easily: thus its size, except objects of collection, enables him to be held in a hand.

Types of lighter

One distinguishes three principal types from lighters, according to the Combustible employed.

The old lighter, out of steel

A very old method for Faire fire, still used nowadays is to use a metal lighter, struck against a glare of Silex. The shower of sparks thus created will be able to communicate its Chaleur with tinder to start the Combustion.

Modern lighters

Lighters

The lighters are spread, and are appropriate for all types of use. Democratized thanks to the manufacturer Zippo, the lighters present a broad autonomy and are refillable. The fuel employed, often with the alcohol to be burned, soaks a wick by Capillarité. A stone with lighter, when it is put in friction by a metal wheel, produces a shower of sparks which lights the gasoline fumes, then the wick itself. The flame, from big size, results from an incomplete combustion: it yellow-orange, and is produced vapors noirâtres.

Lighters

The lighters with Gaz are most current: produced in industrial quantity as of the Years 1960, in particular by the manufacturer Cricket and later Biro, they consist in for the majority causing the ignition of a flammable gas, often of the Butane, by the sparks resulting from the friction of a serrated roller on a stone with lighter. These traditional lighters, cheap, enter in competition with two other types of lighters. The automatics cause the production of a spark via an electronic device. A simple pressure on a pushbutton is enough to slacken fuel gas and to cause a spark. Lastly, the lighters storms draw their name from the invention of sailors, for whom the winds and the elements, when they are at sea, prevent the ignition of fuel gas because of his dispersion. The gas vapors resulting from lighters storms are subjected to a very high pressure, which causes a complete combustion of the fuel, with a bluish flame. Heat thus released can border the 900°C.

If all lighters, usually called Zippo S, and the lighters storms are refillable, rare are the lighters known as traditional and automatics to be had a valve allowing the filling of the tank, except objects of collection and value.

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