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Fire piston
Tool for kindling a fire / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A fire piston, sometimes called a fire syringe or a slam rod fire starter, is a device of ancient Southeast Asian origin which is used to kindle fire. In Malay it is called "gobek api" . It uses the principle of the heating of a gas (in this case air) by rapid and adiabatic compression to ignite a piece of tinder, which is then used to set light to kindling.[1]
![A piece of flash cotton is ignited by the sudden compression of a fire piston.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Fire_piston.jpg/640px-Fire_piston.jpg)