"German tinder" meaning in All languages combined

See German tinder on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} German tinder (uncountable)
  1. (dated) amadou Tags: dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-German_tinder-en-noun-D2bFDy4- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "When lucifers were struck they only fizzed and sputtered, would not burn. German tinder succeeded better; for the exhausted atmosphere, hungering for oxygen, uniting with the atoms of saltpetre in the process of ignition, the tinder, instead of its usual dull glow, threw out a long bright flame, made as it were of electric sparks.",
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          "ref": "1897, Sadi Carnot (original), R. H. Thurston (translator), Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat, Appendix B:",
          "text": "The inflammation of German tinder in the so-called pneumatic tinder-boxes; which are, as we know, little pump-chambers in which the air is rapidly compressed.",
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