Why is Magnesium used in the Mag Flint Firestarter?
We add magnesium to the flint firestarting tool to provide a source of extremely flammable material. This acts as a primary fuel to provide an even hotter starting medium to ignite your tinder. The magnesium provides an extremely hot (5400 degrees) flame to ignite even wet materials. This ranks the Flint Firestarter tool in a survival firestarting class by itself. Magnesium is an ultra lightweight flammable metal. The magnesium used for our flint tools is an alloy, which means other metals have been combined with it. This creates a more controlled burn, rather than an explosion like pure magnesium powder will. Magnesium will actually burn water. At 5400 degrees fahrenheit it separates the two componets of water, oxygen and hydrogen, and uses them as fuel. Thus, a magnesium flame cannot be extinguished with water, making it a perfect material for starting a campfire when everything is wet. Please click on the picture to the right to see the magnesium being used. Note this is a large fil
