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Flint occurs quite often in North America. Do we have a source for that comment?
There is a park in Ohio, near Neward, called Flint Ridge where american indians mined flint. The pits are still in existence. I'm also aware of Indians mining flint in Wisconson, but don't know the exact site. A link to an Ohio website on this follows: http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/flint/
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In the explanation of how it works, the steel is burning, but I know different. Try heating flint from a lighter with another lighter. Throw it down on concrete. No steel, yet it burns, so the flint is burning by itself. Perhaps it is incompletely oxidized Silica. IOW, Si2+ becomes Si4+. I had speculated that it was Iron Phosphide. Thanks for filling me in. I wonder if Iron stabilizes flint. Brewhaha@edmc.net 11:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Anyone noticed that the image of the flint walling in england is on it's side? no-one ever lays flint, or brick for that matter, vertically. 81.102.245.79 23:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, this image is clearly wrong (rotated). Who's gonna fix it? Traveller palm ( talk) 16:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, but the image of flint from Onondaga looks very much like obsidian to me. -- 151.64.67.125 ( talk) 19:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
The picture of Miorcani flint shows a piece of flint from a flint mine. It's not a hand axe. I collected it myself. It was a nodule and I broke the cortex off to expose the inner (flint) material and show the typical conchoidal fracturing. It might look like an axe but it's not. I reverted the comment that someone made that it's an axe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by O crandell ( talk • contribs) 12:44, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Erroneous or not, the term "flint" is used by British potters (Hamer and Hamer, 2004), as well as American (Rhodes, 1969, reprinted). - Marshall46 ( talk) 21:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I have made this change: "the word 'flint' is now erroneously sometimes used". Wikipedia reports usage, it doesn't judge it.
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09:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Nothing about it's chemical or physical properties? I know it is a hard substance, how does it compare to other things on the Mohs scale or whatever. What else about it is noteworthy? Lomacar ( talk) 22:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Ferrocerium or "lighter flint", is a spark-producing metal alloy.
Quote: "This article is about the sedimentary rock. For other uses, see Flint (disambiguation)."
As observed in the above comments, many people think "lighter flint", is a spark-producing sedimentary rock. Therefore they will waste valuable time combing this article to end by cursing Wikipedia. "Lighter flint" needs to be added to the warning.
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23:18, 1 September 2011 (UTC)Doug Bashford
Flint pebbles/silica pebbles were widely used to grind ceramic raw materials in ball mill. The main content is SiO2,the hardness is very good and the volume density is 2.66g/cm3. Flint pebbles/silica pebbles are produced through mining,sorting,processing,grinding and screening. Now more and more customers choose it to grind ceramic raw materials. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.93.5.57 ( talk) 08:11, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
In the UK, at least, flint gravel is widely used as an aggregate in concrete and for road surfacing (bound in bitumen or resin). It is also used unbound for footpaths, driveways, courtyards, etc. Practically every country house in the south of England has flint gravel driveways. By 'flint gravel' I mean naturally formed small flint pebbles derived from flint nodules that have been eroded out of chalk. As this use of flint as an aggregate is probably its main economic use at the present time (since it is apparently no longer much used in glass and ceramics) I suggest it is worth a mention. I don't know about other countries, but I would guess that it is used in similar ways in the other 'chalk' districts of northern Europe. 109.157.150.117 ( talk) 14:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Pity nothing on the worldwide distribution or occurrence of flint... Xenophonix ( talk) 13:58, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Flint occurs in different qualities- I have heard Grimes Graves flint described as "jet black, with excellent flint knapping qualities" and it was chosen and transported hundreds of miles for use at, for example Stonehenge, where other flints are much closer.
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I’m not an editor, but will note for those that are that the hyperlink to “Flint Ridge” in the article’s second paragraph refers to a location in Ohio, but links to a location with the same name in Antarctica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.189.132.203 ( talk) 09:15, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
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Flint occurs quite often in North America. Do we have a source for that comment?
There is a park in Ohio, near Neward, called Flint Ridge where american indians mined flint. The pits are still in existence. I'm also aware of Indians mining flint in Wisconson, but don't know the exact site. A link to an Ohio website on this follows: http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/flint/
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In the explanation of how it works, the steel is burning, but I know different. Try heating flint from a lighter with another lighter. Throw it down on concrete. No steel, yet it burns, so the flint is burning by itself. Perhaps it is incompletely oxidized Silica. IOW, Si2+ becomes Si4+. I had speculated that it was Iron Phosphide. Thanks for filling me in. I wonder if Iron stabilizes flint. Brewhaha@edmc.net 11:07, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Anyone noticed that the image of the flint walling in england is on it's side? no-one ever lays flint, or brick for that matter, vertically. 81.102.245.79 23:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, this image is clearly wrong (rotated). Who's gonna fix it? Traveller palm ( talk) 16:16, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, but the image of flint from Onondaga looks very much like obsidian to me. -- 151.64.67.125 ( talk) 19:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
The picture of Miorcani flint shows a piece of flint from a flint mine. It's not a hand axe. I collected it myself. It was a nodule and I broke the cortex off to expose the inner (flint) material and show the typical conchoidal fracturing. It might look like an axe but it's not. I reverted the comment that someone made that it's an axe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by O crandell ( talk • contribs) 12:44, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Erroneous or not, the term "flint" is used by British potters (Hamer and Hamer, 2004), as well as American (Rhodes, 1969, reprinted). - Marshall46 ( talk) 21:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I have made this change: "the word 'flint' is now erroneously sometimes used". Wikipedia reports usage, it doesn't judge it.
Marshall46 (
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09:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Nothing about it's chemical or physical properties? I know it is a hard substance, how does it compare to other things on the Mohs scale or whatever. What else about it is noteworthy? Lomacar ( talk) 22:40, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Ferrocerium or "lighter flint", is a spark-producing metal alloy.
Quote: "This article is about the sedimentary rock. For other uses, see Flint (disambiguation)."
As observed in the above comments, many people think "lighter flint", is a spark-producing sedimentary rock. Therefore they will waste valuable time combing this article to end by cursing Wikipedia. "Lighter flint" needs to be added to the warning.
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23:18, 1 September 2011 (UTC)Doug Bashford
Flint pebbles/silica pebbles were widely used to grind ceramic raw materials in ball mill. The main content is SiO2,the hardness is very good and the volume density is 2.66g/cm3. Flint pebbles/silica pebbles are produced through mining,sorting,processing,grinding and screening. Now more and more customers choose it to grind ceramic raw materials. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.93.5.57 ( talk) 08:11, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
In the UK, at least, flint gravel is widely used as an aggregate in concrete and for road surfacing (bound in bitumen or resin). It is also used unbound for footpaths, driveways, courtyards, etc. Practically every country house in the south of England has flint gravel driveways. By 'flint gravel' I mean naturally formed small flint pebbles derived from flint nodules that have been eroded out of chalk. As this use of flint as an aggregate is probably its main economic use at the present time (since it is apparently no longer much used in glass and ceramics) I suggest it is worth a mention. I don't know about other countries, but I would guess that it is used in similar ways in the other 'chalk' districts of northern Europe. 109.157.150.117 ( talk) 14:45, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Pity nothing on the worldwide distribution or occurrence of flint... Xenophonix ( talk) 13:58, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
Flint occurs in different qualities- I have heard Grimes Graves flint described as "jet black, with excellent flint knapping qualities" and it was chosen and transported hundreds of miles for use at, for example Stonehenge, where other flints are much closer.
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I’m not an editor, but will note for those that are that the hyperlink to “Flint Ridge” in the article’s second paragraph refers to a location in Ohio, but links to a location with the same name in Antarctica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.189.132.203 ( talk) 09:15, 15 April 2019 (UTC)