How to mix Potassium chlorate, sulphur, starch and glue are the chemicals used to make auto fire or match stick burner from some distance
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Tip of Match has : potassium chlorate (an oxidant), sulfur, starch, glue and some other ingredients.
Potassium chlorate
Striking Surface : red phosphorus, powdered glass, and glue.
Red phosphorus
Well ,whats a an oxidant ?
An oxidizing agent is a chemical that takes electrons from another chemical.
When a chemical loses electrons we say it has been oxidized.
An oxidizing agent is necessary to keep a flame lit.
When a match strikes on striking surface, the heat of the friction causes a reaction between the potassium chlorate in the match head and the red phosphorus in the striking surface.
That way sparks are formed, which finally ignite the match head that continues to burn after that, the friction caused by the glass powder rubbing together produces enough heat to turn a very small amount of the red phosphorus into white phosphorus, which catches fire in air.
The heat and oxygen gas then cause the sulfur to burst into flame, which then catches the wood of the match to catch on fire
We can sum up the chemical equation as :
16KCl3 + 3P4 S3 --> 16 KCl + 9SO2
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