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tinder

touchwood, splinters, kindling; see fuel, wood 2.

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Crumple up some paper, which will act as your tinder, and place it in the center of the fire pit.
Place dry twigs and leaves (also known as tinder) in a crisscross pattern on top of the paper.
When the tinder burns well, then add hardwood branches or kindling, logs or charcoal briquettes to the fire.
The total extent tinder this crop in 1905 was about 35,000 acres, of which 45% was in Baden, 12% in Bavaria, 30% in Prussia, and the rest in Alsace and Hesse-Darmstadt.
AMADOU, a soft tough substance used as tinder, derived from Polyporus fomentarius, a fungus belonging to the group Basidiomycetes and somewhat resembling a mushroom in manner of growth.

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