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What is this mysterious red, porous item?

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A certain John Walker accidentally discovered matches in 1826 after seeing that a stick with a solidified chemical on the tip that he rubbed off started a fire. At the time, he called the invention “Congreves,” after the rocket creator Sir William Congreve.

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