Firesteels

[spoony]

What are they made from?? and what makes them work as they do??

 

[leon-b]

i think they are made up of lots of metals
leon

 

[spamel]

They are indeed a mixture of a whole host ofdifferent metals in varying ratios. There was a post on this before in fact, although i cannot remember who posted the original thread. Friction will be what makes the magical sparks!

 

[Too Much Kit To Carry]

ferrocerium (¦fe·rō′sir·ē·əm)

Have a look here

Phil.

 

[Jodie]

What are they made from?? and what makes them work as they do??

There's a lot of information about their composition etc here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesteel

 

[spoony]

cheers loads of info there