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Ensign-Bickford hot-wire lighter

A fuse lighter similar to a Fourth-of-July sparkler, that burns for 2-1/2 min, sufficient time to light 30 to 50 fuses. The lead splitter is a lead tube of diameter about 1/8 in (3.2 mm) in filled with a slow-burning powder that burns at the rate of 36 s/ft (118 s/m) with a hot splitting flame.

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