LIGHTERS
A lighter is a portable device which uses mechanical or electrical means to create a controlled flame, and can be used to ignite a variety of flammable items, such as cigarettes, butane gas, fireworks, candles, or campfires. Some lighters use a consumable chemical fuel, others use electricity from a battery.
A chemical-powered lighter typically consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable liquid, a compressed flammable gas, or in rarer cases a flammable solid (e.g. rope in a trench lighter). These have a means of ignition to produce the flame, and some provision for extinguishing the flame or else controlling it to such a degree that users may extinguish it with their breath.
Electric lighters come in two varieties. One type uses hot plasma generated with an electric arc. The other type uses a resistive heating element; these were first formally used by Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler to light cigars, and have since been incorporated into cigarette lighters attached to automobile auxiliary power outlets.
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