What kind if gas is used in BIC lighters?

[Jerry.Tan]

What kind if gas is used in BIC lighters?

It cant be propane, because they will not light if they get really cold from being in my car.

I can light a propane torch in the cold, but not these damn lighters... I usually have to hold them in my bare hands for at least 5 min. before they light. Brand dont matter. Whether they are BIC, or some cheap generic ones, they just will not light in the cold. You'd think some one would have made lighters INTENDED for cold weather by now....

I dont know if those old Zippo lighters will work in the cold, I stopped using them 40 years ago, after that fluid leaked out in my pocket and left a nasty "chemical burn" on my leg.

[bob_villa]

Google would have told you is butane.

[clare]

Butane. It boils at 31F compared to propane at -42F

[Kasha]

Maybe you should just quit smoking?

[Meanie]

Google would have told him the answer to 95% of all the questions he asks in here.

Children don't even ask as many questions as he does.

[bob haller]

anyone smoking today has a total lack of common sense.........:({({(

[philo]

The majority of smokers know it's bad but are too addicted to quit.

My wife is an ex-smoker and when we leave the grocery store we walk by the $75 a carton cigarettes and say:

"Wow, look at that, too bad we wasted our money on food."

[Stormin Mormon]

We used to generically call them "butane lighters" when I was a kid. Might been a regional thing. Yes, the boiling point is about 32F for butane, so cold is a real issue.

Propane has boiling point about -40F, which is less issue in most parts of the world.

I've found that yellow Mapp tanks are useless in the cold. One time at a repair job, had to use the hot water in the bathroom to warm my Mapp tank to get it to work.

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[Stormin Mormon]

Smoking killed Leonard Nimoy at an early age. Also killed my father, and other folks I'm sure.

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[Stormin Mormon]

Makes more sense to go home and light dollar bills on fire, at least you're less likely to breathe them and die early.

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[Dan Espen]

Wow.

My irony meter just caught fire, burned a hole in the floor and was last seen heading toward China.

[bob_villa]

How many seconds does it take to warm in your hand?

[NotMe]

Read the packageing likely says BUTANE. Which may be way it's called a BUTANE lighter.

[Harry K]

aWhich is why I have always wonderd at people who include them in emergency kits.

I have seen several lists of survival kits including them. Totally useless in the cold.

Harry K

[bob_villa]

May be you have me blocked (can't imagine why?)...how long does it take to warm a small lighter in your hand or pocket?

[Mark Lloyd]

But they weren't addicted when they STARTED. I never understood why anyone would. When I was young, I knew nothing of the health problems. Smoking still stinks, and there's the fire hazard.

BTW, my grandfather chewed tobacco. My grandmother complained about it, but at least he wasn't spitting it out in people's faces. That'd make it more like smoking.

[Mark Lloyd]

I remember seeing this poster in a doctor's exam room. From a distance it looked like a cigarette. When you get closer, it's dimes and pennies. It's about all the money smokers spend on the habit.

[Stormin Mormon]

Unless you know to warm it up....

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[clare]

Put them in your arm-pit for a few minutes and they light.

[clare]

Harry know something useful????????

Na, not in our lifetimes.