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Burning Metal

Send steel up in flames—as long as it's in wool form

by Mike Walker: Hot Steel: Set a steel-wool pad ablaze using an ordinary match. Photo by Mike Walker
I was 10 years old, but I'll never forget that day: The smell of bread in the oven. The crunchy grit of steel wool in my fingers. The fact that my mom still left matches out where I could find them. That's when I learned that, yes, you can light steel with a match.

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