Flarecoal BriquettesThe Practicable Chemistrologist's Enriched Briquette took some significant effort to develop, from such auspices as the Feathered Pillow With Naptha, the Saw'd Dusts And Assorted Phosphorescents, and the Log Besoaked In Foul Wine. Fortunately, the Briquette is self-igniting, easily fragments, and erupts in prodigious displays of violence at unpredictable intervals after ignition with no risk of extinguishment even when wet.
Required for production of a Briquette are coal dust, iron filings, saltpeter, and sheep's tallow, mixed thouroughly and vigorously, then rolled in fine granules of condensed sugar. Each briquette may be ignited by striking it against a convenient surface, by exposure to open flame, or by not more than five yard's proximity to the great quantity of sparks and hot embers supplied by another briquette. Each briquette is prepared to feed the great engines of war waging away in far off lands, and is appropriately sized similarly to a loaf of bread but rounder.
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Flarecoal Briquettes are *NOT* to be used as fuel for any purpose, not in trains, not to cook over, nothing. Dispose of them any way you can, load them in your cannons, throw them from your balloons, get them gone. Initial reports were promising, so you'll have regular shipments for several years while we empty our warehouses in the capital. May the gods have mercy on your souls.
