Schauberger
From experience the preparation of organic precious metals is only successful under the influence of a falling temperature gradient, because only thus can higher-grade emulsions take place; something that I have tried and tested myself. Dr Zuckerkandl, a forensic scientist who presently lives in Paris, analysed organic metals that I had ur-produced as long as 20 years ago. To his huge astonishment, he confirmed my assertion that metals of all kinds actually grow. This should be understood as the incarnation of ions, which for the first time correctly explains the generally accepted concept of 'growth'. This involves the solidification of stocks of bipolar dynagens under the influence of gentle and diffuse heat (viz. the highly metalliferous egg-shaped stones, for example, which emit a golden yellow glow even when rubbed together under water - the legendary Rhinegold and Gold of the Nibelungs. This has nothing to do with flints, which in any case do not spark under water.) [The Energy Evolution - Harnessing Free Energy from Nature, The Catalysts]
Gun Flints
Remember, recently we were discussing flint nappers producing gun flints. Saw this flintlock at the weekend and had to take a pic. So, gunflints were used in flintlock firearms, including muskets, rifles, and pistols, from the mid-17th to the mid-19th centuries, before being largely replaced by percussion caps by around 1850 and later by metal cartridges.
Flintlocks were primarily used in European countries and their colonies, as they were relatively complex and difficult to manufacture. A gunflint was clamped between the jaws of the lock with its sharp edge facing the frizzen, an L-shaped piece of steel mounted on a hinge at the front of the lock. When the firearm was cocked (giving rise to the phrase “locked and loaded”), the lock was pulled back and held in place.
Pulling the trigger released the lock, causing it to snap forward rapidly so the gunflint struck and scraped along the frizzen, producing sparks while also flipping the frizzen backward to expose the pan beneath. The pan held a small amount of black powder, which the sparks ignited, sending a flame through a tiny touchhole into the barrel to ignite the main charge.
The resulting explosion of the propellant forced the tightly packed lead ball out of the barrel, all within a fraction of a second. A common malfunction, called a “flash in the pan,” occurred when the priming powder ignited but failed to ignite the main charge through the touchhole.
The sharp edge of a flint gradually dulled through repeated strikes, often by microflaking against the frizzen, but under ideal conditions a single flint could last for about 200 shots before needing replacement.
An experienced knapper could make 3,000 gunflints during a 12-hour workday. [anon]