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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: alt.flame,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Which is hotter?
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Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 14:35:46 EDT
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In article <2515@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>Neat!  A new newsgroup.  Well, let's get things started.  Which do you
>folks think generates a hotter flame, a cigarette lighter or a
>cardboard match?

Well, we need to pin a few things down.    Do you mean cigarette lighter
fueled by butane, or by lighter fluid (whatever hydrocarbon that might be)?
(Since you say flame, we can rule out electric automobile cigarette lighters).
And by cardboard match, do you mean when the cardboard is burning, or
during the ignition phase when the chemicals (potassium chlorate and 
something?) are burning?
(Does it, in fact, make a difference?)

For that matter, what do you mean by "hotter"?  Higher temperature, or
greater caloric content (temperature * specific heat of the flame
products * their mass).

Probably, since the flame colours are much the same, the temperatures
are all pretty close within a couple hundred degrees.  But that's a guess.
-- 
 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
                      UUCP: ...!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!geovision!alastair

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