A fire striker (AKA Fire Steel) is a mis-named piece of knife-hard steel from which sparks are struck by the sharp edge of chert or similar rock. (To create confusion, ferrocerium rods, described below, are also called "fire steels.")
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“There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 3:2.