Solo Matches in a box of 38 pieces 1 pack

Matches (also known as safety matches) are elongated pieces of wood, for example. aspen, spruce, or poplar, less commonly from cardboard with an ignitable substance on one of its ends, used for starting a fire. The sticks are further partially or completely saturated with a substance that facilitates burning. The flammable substance at the end of the stick, known asheader, catches due to friction.

Ignite at a safe distance from the body.

To start a fire, our Stone Age ancestors used two suitable sticks, which were rubbed together for so long until the friction surfaces reached a sufficient temperature.

Then they added tinder to it and kindled the fire by blowing. This system is still used by primitive nations today. Later, people managed to develop a flintlock, where the struck spark ignited the tinder. Then people invented chemical lighters and matches.

• Currently, most matches ignite exclusively as a result of a sufficiently energetic strike of the head against a specially prepared surface - the striker.
• This solution practically eliminates the spontaneous or uncontrolled ignition of the match by accidental friction against another surface.
• Before that, phosphorus matches were used for a long time, which ignited when struck energetically against any dry and rough surface (e.g. about the shoe sole).

The match head now consists mainly of potassium chlorate, antimony sulfide, sulfur, dye, and ground glass, which gives the head roughness to increase friction. Matchsticks are saturated with liquid paraffin, which facilitates burning, and sodium phosphate, which prevents the match from smoldering after the flame is extinguished. The striking surface contains red phosphorus, ground glass, and a binder. Striking a match against the striking surface generates a temperature of about 200 - 1100 °C at the contact point, which is sufficient to ignite the match head and subsequently the stick. This type is called safety matches.

They were invented in 1848 by the Frankfurt professor of chemistry Rudolph Christian Boettger (1806-1861).

There was no interest in the invention in Germany, so the Swedes bought it. The Swede Johan Edward Lundström improved matches, equipped them with a sliding box, and began industrial production in 1855. At the turn of the 19th a 20. century, the heads were made of a material that contained toxic white phosphorus or phosphorus sulfide. White phosphorus was banned for match production in 1903.