Meaning of Splint

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An even more hazardous device, popular in America, was the Instantaneous Light Box - a bottle filled with sulphuric acid into which splints treated with chemicals were dipped.

What is the exact meaning of split in this sentence?
 
Aleays tell us the source and author of any text you quote,please.
 
And just a little more context would help. Does the text say anything about this thing's purpose?
 
It's for starting a fire. The small piece of wood (like a wood match) would be coated with chemicals. You'd dip it into the box, which contained other chemicals, and voila! Fire.
 
Even though you've now been given the answer, you still need to provide the source and author of the quote. You must do this in post 1 in future.
 
I am sorry. I could not edit my first post. This sentence is from a book called Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1.

In its very first reading passage called ''A Spark, a Flint, How Fire Leapt to Life'' includes the sentence. When I look for splint in dictionaries, the only result was that;

''a long, firmobject used as a support for a brokenbone so that the bonestays in a particularposition while it heals.''

(Cambridge Online Dictionary)

However here, it means something like a wood match.
 
An even more hazardous device, popular in America, was the Instantaneous Light Box - a bottle filled with sulphuric acid into which splints treated with chemicals were dipped.

What is the exact meaning of "splint" in this sentence?

Note my corrections above.

When I Googled "definition of splint", this was the very first hit. As you can see, definition 2 is exactly the one you needed. I admit it's not a definition I was familiar with. I call those long thin bits of wood that help to light something "spills" or "tapers".
 
It's news to me too.
 
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