"When the rain comes, won't it counteract the ignition of that phosphorus?"

Hot now, and black as ink, I proceeded through the town, stopping with perfect system at every hundredth door: and I laid the faggots of a great burning: and timed them all for ignition at midnight of the twelfth day.

Strange air-currents, failure of ignition due to lack of oxygenhow do I know?

Under the deck and outside of the hull proper were placed her gasoline tanks, safe from any possible danger of ignition from the interior.

LIMELIGHT, a bright light caused by making a stream of two gases, oxygen and nitrogen, play in a state of ignition on a piece of compact quicklime.

Ignition is effected electrically by a series of sparks playing between two platinum points in the slide valve, and this permits of regulating the instant of ignition through the edges of the orifices.