They provide a predetermined, limited time interval before an incendiary starts to burn. A Flexible fabric tube containing powder that is used to start fires at some remote location. The powder in the fuse burns and provides a time delay. An intermediate charge between an initiator and an incendiary material. It is set aflame by the init- iator and produces sufficent heat at high temps to ignite the main incendiary.
Ignitors are fast burning and relatively short lived.
A material that burns with a hot flame for long periods. Its purpose is to set fire to wooden structures and other combustable targets. A group of elements that are assembled to start fires. The source that provides the first fire in an incendiary system. A match is an initiator.