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Contents 1 Flint in north america 2 Composition 3 Image 4 Flint Composition

[edit] Flint in north america

Flint occurs quite often in North America. Do we have a source for that comment?

Do we need one? The American indians seemed to have little trouble finding it - 90 percent of their arrowheads are flint, at least in the northeast US. I used to live near the Onandaga limestone outcrop, and flint was as hard to find as sand at the beach. PAR 15:46, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

There is a park in Ohio, near Neward, called Flint Ridge where american indians mined flint. The pits are still in existence. I'm also aware of Indians mining flint in Wisconson, but don't know the exact site. A link to an Ohio website on this follows: http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/flint/

[edit] Composition

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In the explanation of how it works, the steel is burning, but I know different. Try heating flint from a lighter with another lighter. Throw it down on concrete. No steel, yet it burns, so the flint is burning by itself. Perhaps it is incompletely oxidized Silica. IOW, Si²⁺ becomes Si⁴⁺. I had speculated that it was Iron Phosphide. Thanks for filling me in. I wonder if Iron stabilizes flint. Brewhaha@edmc.net 11:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Modern "flints" aren't flint. They are Ferrocerium. The flint/steel roles are reversed. True flint (from the ground) doesn't burn, Ferrocerium does. -- 21:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.33.121.200 (talk)

When flint is struck against flint it still produces a spark. --84.92.184.12 00:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, all you need to do is throw a flint pebble on brighton beach at night to prove that it sparks. 81.102.245.79 23:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image

Anyone noticed that the image of the flint walling in england is on it's side? no-one ever lays flint, or brick for that matter, vertically. 81.102.245.79 23:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flint Composition

Last time I checked, flint wasn't a form of quartz. Where did they get this from?81.145.240.137 (talk) 16:41, 30 March 2008 (UTC)Lance Tyrell

Just added a couple references for you. Vsmith (talk) 19:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)