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Skinflint is not an American expression describing a parsimonious “gun toter” saving money by “skinning” his flint with his knife to avoid buying a new one.
Faced with this problem, some gun toters would skin, or sharpen the flint with a knife, creating a bevel in the flint, which could then make full contact and generate an adequate shower of sparks.
The pan is the part of the gunlock that contains a small quantity of fine gunpowder ignited by sparks produced by the flint shearing small bits of metal from the frizzen . A small hole bored in the barrel allows the charge to be ignited.
Jö;ns Jakob Berzelius, who discovered selenium (from Greek selene , moon) in 1818 and named silicon (from Latin silex , flint) in 1824, compiled the first systematic table of the elements in 1828, arranged according to units of atomic weight one twelfth of the heft of the commonest isotope of carbon.
USAT goes with the outbreak of a sympathy strike at a second Flint, Michigan GM plant.