Editing Tinder (section)

== Materials==

Materials used as tinder around the world include:<ref>{{cite web |date=19 March 2019 |title=Char Mastery: Charred Tinder How-To |url=https://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2019/03/19/making-charred-tinder/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022150825/https://www.realworldsurvivor.com/2019/03/19/making-charred-tinder/ |archive-date=2020-10-22 |access-date=28 November 2020 |website=Real World Survivor}}</ref>

* Small [[twig]]s (poor tinder but commonly available)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mountainadventures.org.uk/documents/6%20Fire%20Lighting.pdf|title=Billy Goat Mountain Adventures|access-date=2009-04-14|archive-date=2019-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222152346/http://mountainadventures.org.uk/documents/6%20Fire%20Lighting.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Paper]], [[paper towel]]s, [[toilet paper]], etc.

* Dry [[pine needle]]s, [[leaf|leaves]] or [[Poaceae|grass]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whipperleys.co.uk/acatalog/maya_dust_fire_lighting_tinder.html|title=Whipperleys|access-date=2009-04-14|archive-date=2022-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305095604/http://www.whipperleys.co.uk/acatalog/maya_dust_fire_lighting_tinder.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Birch bark]]
* Dead, standing (usually one season old) [[goldenrod]]
* [[Cloth]], [[lint (material)|lint]], or frayed [[rope]] (if made from [[plant]] fibers and not treated with [[fire retardant]])
* [[Char cloth]]
* [[Cotton ball]]s, [[cotton swab]]s, [[tampon]]s
*seed "fluff" from plants like [[milkweed]], [[dandelions]], [[Populus|Cottonwood]], etc.
* Some types of [[fungus]], such as [[Inonotus_obliquus|chaga]], [[Daldinia concentrica|''Daldinia concentrica'']] (king alfred cakes) and [[amadou]] (or horse's hoof fungus)
* Dry bread or [[knäckebröd]] and [[shoe polish]] 
* Punk wood (in the process of rotting) or [[Char (chemistry)|char]]red wood
* [[Bird down]]
* abandoned [[bird nest]]s
* [[Fatwood]], also known as rich pine or pine knot
* Fine-grade soap-coated [[steel wool]]
* Shaved [[magnesium]] or other [[alkaline earth metal]]s<ref name='fsr'>{{cite book|last=Cooper|first=Donald C. |others=National Association for Search and Rescue (U.S.)|title=Fundamentals of search and rescue |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Publishers|year=2005|edition=illustrated|page=341|isbn=0-7637-4807-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JWNcKsY6DfMC&pg=PA71|access-date=14 Apr 2009}}</ref>
*Specially prepared [[stringybark]], known as ''morthi'', used by the [[Kaurna]] people of [[South Australia]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Schultz | first=Chester | title=Place Name Summary 6/23: Brukangga and Tindale's uses of the word bruki | website=Adelaide Research & Scholarship | publisher=[[University of Adelaide]] | date=22 October 2018 | url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/placenames/research-publ/6-23Brukangga.pdf | access-date=16 November 2020 | archive-date=10 September 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910191311/https://www.adelaide.edu.au/kwp/placenames/research-publ/6-23Brukangga.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>