I was looking at the BAA website for items that are/arent allowed as hand luggage & it seems you can take a box of saftey matches onboard but not non safety matches. What is the difference between the two?
2006-12-16 21:22:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Air Travel
i think non safety matches can be struck anywhere,safety matches you have to use the box.im not 100% sure though
2006-12-16 21:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-22 14:58:27 · answer #2 · answered by wilson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The comments about the 'non' safety matches being able to be struck on any abrasive surface are correct. More importantly however, this type of match can also be struck on another match of the same type, so that means any compression (a bag being squashed in the hold during loading or air turbulence for example) could ignite the matches in a box, thus they are an accident waiting to happen.
2006-12-17 00:57:54 · answer #3 · answered by stephen t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matches use a small amount of phosphorous in order to ignite. With non-safety matches, the phosphorous is in the match-head, allowing it to be struck against any rough surface. Safety matches contain no phosphorous. That chemical is actually in the strip on the side of the box against which you have to strike the match.
So when BAA say you are not allowed to take non-safety matches on board an aircraft, they mean matches that contain phosphorous in their head.
2006-12-16 21:37:16 · answer #4 · answered by 13caesars 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As someone said the BAA ban the non-safety matches? Why? Because they could set themselves off if shaken about in your baggage (they don't need the strip on the side of the box, as others mentioned).
If Swan Vestas are now banned in the UK I wonder if you can actually buy that type of match any more?
2006-12-16 21:47:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non - safety matches can be struck on almost any rough surface.
When you strike a safety match it is a chemical reaction between the sulphur on the match head and the striking surface on the box, this means they can only be struck on this type of surface and hence have been deemed 'safe'
2006-12-16 21:30:35 · answer #6 · answered by Begbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A non safety match can be ignited by friction. Swan vesta matches (the red tipped ones) were this type. These can be ignited by friction on just about any surface. A bald head for example.
Safety matches will usually only ignite through friction on the box strip. You can't light them that very cool way with your thumb!
2006-12-16 21:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by Black Sapphire 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swan Vesta Matches
2016-11-11 04:27:07 · answer #8 · answered by cely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matches which aren't safe? I think it is to do with the fact that the non safety matchescan be stuck on any rough surface and lit, whereas safety matches are harder to light on any rough surface other than the surface given on the match box
2006-12-16 21:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Non saftey matches can be struck on anything. My mum reckons that you can struck on glass!! She thiinks that she and her mates did it at school all the time. I spose they do even today in Western Sydney!
Freaky eh!
Saftey matches are the ones with the box. Im surprised that they let them on aircraft as you can just start a fire!
2006-12-16 22:00:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Champagne is right
The most famous brand of non-safety matches in the UK was SWAN, but now they're banned.
Our government loves us and cares for us and looks after us and is cleverer than us - the revolution is coming - Tony and his Cronie's will say "why are the peasants revolting?"!
2006-12-16 21:28:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋