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Starting Fire With an Ice Lens

Dennis G. Jerz / 5 Mar 2003

Worth a thousand words:
A lens made of ice focuses the energy from the sun onto smoking grass.
Bob Gillis —Starting Fire With an Ice Lens (Primitive Ways)

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