"German tinder" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1862 August 23, Mrs. H. Stanley, “The trials of an inventor”, in Once a Week",
          "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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