Upon pulling the trigger, this moves forward under the pressure of a strong spring and strikes a curved plate of hardened steel ( called simply the steel, or in 17th century English dialect the frizzen ) to produce a shower of sparks ( actually white-hot steel shavings ).

During live concerts in the Sehnsucht tour, Till usually simulated firing rockets over the audience with a bow ( actually propelled sitting on a string ) and then the bow started to propel sparks in all directions as Till rotated it.

There were actually three different Auermetalls developed: The first was just iron and cerium, the second also included lanthanum to produce brighter sparks, and the third added other heavy metals.

* The contact between flint and frizzen produces a shower of sparks ( burning pieces of the metal ) that is directed into the gunpowder in the flashpan.

In some cases, " puff pieces " purport to provide a review of the product or event, but instead merely provide " peacock words " (" An amazing recording "); " weasel words " (" probably one of the most important albums of the 2000s ") and tabloid-style filler which is peripheral or irrelevant to assessing the qualities of the product or event (" During the filming, there were rumours that romantic sparks flew between the two co-leads, who were often seen talking together on the set ").

Wulfenbach uses his own not inconsiderable charisma and skill to establish a " peace of the biggest guns ", and polices Europa's sparks while trying to put together the fragmented pieces of the puzzle.

In some cases, " puff pieces " purport to provide a review of the product or event, but instead merely provide " peacock words " (" An amazing recording "); " weasel words " (" probably one of the most important albums of the 2000s ") and tabloid-style filler which is peripheral or irrelevant to assessing the qualities of the product or event (" During the filming, there were rumours that romantic sparks flew between the two co-leads, who were often seen talking together on the set ").

The sparks generated are in fact tiny pieces of burning metal.

Twin sparks provide two flame fronts within the cylinder, these two flame fronts decreasing the time needed for the fuel charge to burn, thereby burning more of the fuel at a lower temperature and pressure.

The first person to visit the family on that day should strike the burning badnjak with a poker or a branch to make sparks fly from it, at the same time uttering a wish that the happiness, prosperity, health, and joy of the family be as abundant as the sparks.

Similarly, finely-powdered thermite can be ignited by a regular flint spark lighter, as the sparks are burning metal ( in this case, the highly-reactive rare-earth metals lanthanum and cerium ).

Prior to the use of matches, fires were obtained using a burning glass ( a lens ) to focus the sun on tinder, a method that could only work on sunny days, or by igniting tinder with sparks produced by striking flint and steel.

Electric discharge machining ( EDM ), sometimes colloquially also referred to as spark machining, spark eroding, burning, die sinking or wire erosion, is a manufacturing process whereby a desired shape is obtained using electrical discharges ( sparks ).

Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.

Also, when they are either cut or hammered, they produce sparks and a burning sulfur smell.

Care must be taken to avoid overheating the metal to the point that it gives off sparks from rapid oxidation ( burning ).

* Water Curtain-a system similar to the deluge system, except instead of having the water drench the stage itself, the water flows from sprinkler heads or other nozzles directly in front of the proscenium to prevent sparks from flying off the stage or to extinguish any burning material ( such as a set ) which may fall through the proscenium.

Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in a huge fire, without weight or equilibrium, and amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear.

Then the “ jet, filled with smoke and burning shreds becomes a whirling inverted cone flashing with thousands of yellow sparks in a brilliant pyrotechnic display ”.

Candles usually send up a fountain of sparks and burning embers which may travel some distance and be of concern if near the unburnt side of a control line.

Fires were set by hot cinders flung from locomotives, sparks, lightning, and backfiring crews, and by mid August there were 1, 000 to 3, 000 fires burning in Idaho, Montana, Washington and British Columbia.

Unlike steel, bronze struck against a hard surface will not generate sparks, so it ( along with beryllium copper ) is used to make hammers, mallets, wrenches and other durable tools to be used in explosive atmospheres or in the presence of flammable vapors.

The spark used to ignite the gunpowder in the touch hole was supplied by a sharpened piece of flint clamped in the jaws of a " cock " which, when released by the trigger, struck a piece of steel called the " frizzen " to create the necessary sparks.

As the impact between steel hammer heads and the objects being hit can, and does, create sparks, which in some industries such as underground coal mining with methane gas, or in other hazardous environments containing flammable gases and vapours, can be dangerous and risk igniting the gases.

The Huolongjing describes the trigger device used for this as a ' steel wheel ', which directed sparks of flame onto the connection of fuses running to the multiple-laid land mines underneath the carefully hidden trap.

Besides the use of steel wheels providing sparks for the fuses, there were other methods used as well, such as the ' underground sky-soaring thunder '.

The sparks generated by striking steel against a Ferrocerium | flint provide the activation energy to initiate combustion in this Bunsen burner.

When struck against steel, a flint edge will produce sparks.

A piece of flint held in the jaws of a spring-loaded hammer, when released by a trigger, strikes a hinged piece of steel (" frizzen ") at an angle, creating a shower of sparks and exposing a charge of priming powder.

This man-made material, when scraped with any hard, sharp edge, produces sparks that are much hotter than obtained with natural flint and steel, allowing use of a wider range of tinders.

The wheellock works by spinning a spring-loaded steel wheel against a piece of pyrite to generate intense sparks which ignite gunpowder in a pan, which flashes through a small touchhole to ignite the main charge in the firearm's barrel.

Like the earlier snaplock and later flintlock, the snaphance drives a flint onto a steel to create a shower of sparks to ignite the main charge ( propellant ).

It is especially useful for catching sparks from flint and steel or similar striker type fire starters in the absence of matches.

The firesteel is simply a piece of tempered carbon steel ( as it is difficult to obtain sparks using this method with ordinary iron or stainless steel ), often formed in a " D " shape so it can be looped around two or three fingers for striking.

The flint and steel method, where hot sparks are struck from a piece of steel or iron onto suitable tinder and fanned into flames, was also used by primitive cultures.

The stone pulls steel flakes off the striker, which become hot, molten sparks.

Piece of steel wool being spun to produce sparks for light painting

A snaplock ignites the ( usually muzzleloading ) weapon's propellant by means of sparks produced when a spring-powered cock strikes a flint down on to a piece of hardened steel.

The flint strikes from the steel a shower of white hot steel shavings ( sparks ) which fall towards the priming powder held in the flash pan.

Iron reacts with rare earth metals to form hard intermetallic compounds similar to those in neodymium magnets ; such magnets are also known to generate sparks quite easily when broken.

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