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http://www.nesacs.org/nucleus/0012Nuc/wolfgang_dobereiner.htm
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner's Lighter
http://www.onagocag.com/fire.html
Friction based fire-making techniques
http://www.newscientist.com/lastword
Very useful New Scientist website
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/evakoch/ild-uk.htm
A paper detailing fire making techniques with nice illustrations of
flint tools
http://members.aye.net/~bspen/fire.html
Making fire with steel and Flint
http://www.santesson.com/christ/ljus.htm
Candles
http://www.chem.leeds.ac.uk/delights/texts/expt_2.html
Details of chemical fire making fun
http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1920/press.html
Source of the quoted Nobel Prize Address
http://www.britannica.com
Online Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://webphysics.davidson.edu/alumni/MiLee/JLab/Crystallography_WWW/Grown_Crystals.htm#RochelleSalt
Page about growing crystals