Meaning of Splint

[Erbab]

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?

 

[Rover_KE]

Aleays tell us the source and author of any text you quote,please.

 

[GoesStation]

And just a little more context would help. Does the text say anything about this thing's purpose?

 

[SoothingDave]

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.

 

[emsr2d2]

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.

 

[Erbab]

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.

 

[emsr2d2]

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".

 

[Tdol]

It's news to me too.