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  2. Trick candle - Wikipedia

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    A man attempting to blow out trick candles on a cake. A trick candle, also known as magic candle, is a novelty candle capable of relighting itself. By igniting magnesium inserted into the wick of the candle, the paraffin vapor given off when a candle is blown out can be set alight, allowing the candle to reignite itself.

  3. Nethergate - Wikipedia

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    Nethergate is a computer-based historical fantasy role-playing game published by Spiderweb Software for the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. The game was released in 1998 by Jeff Vogel, and was Spiderweb Software's first game to feature a 45° isometric viewing angle.

  4. Fire striker - Wikipedia

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    Assorted reproduction firesteels typical of Roman to medieval period Late 18th-century firetools and bricks from Brittany. A fire striker is a piece of carbon steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of flint, chert or similar rock.

  5. Nether - Wikipedia

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    The Nether, a hell-like dimension in the video game Minecraft The Nether , a sci-fi play Nether (video game) , a first-person multiplayer survival video game for Microsoft Windows

  6. Nether Earth - Wikipedia

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    Nether Earth is one of the earliest computer real-time strategy games. It was released for the Amstrad CPC , ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1987. It was published in the United Kingdom by Argus Press Software and re-released in Spain by Mind Games Espana S.A.

  7. Luminous flux - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of luminous flux is the lumen (lm). One lumen is defined as the luminous flux of light produced by a light source that emits one candela of luminous intensity over a solid angle of one steradian.

  8. Metal-halide lamp - Wikipedia

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    Like other gas-discharge lamps such as the very-similar mercury-vapor lamps, metal-halide lamps produce light by ionizing a mixture of gases in an electric arc.In a metal-halide lamp, the compact arc tube contains a mixture of argon or xenon, mercury, and a variety of metal halides, such as sodium iodide and scandium iodide. [7]

  9. Light cone - Wikipedia

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    Light cones near a black hole resulting from a collapsing star. The purple (dashed) line shows the path of a photon emitted from the surface of a collapsing star.