Ice Lens

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Ice Lens
can you make a burning lens with ice?

Captain Scoresby states, that with a lump of ice of by no means regular cunvexity, used as a burning lens, he has frequently burn •wood, fired gunpowder, mr-lted lead, and lit the sailors
pipes, to their great astonishment ; the ice itself remain
ing, in the mean while, quite firm and pellucid.

http://books.google.com/books?id=T4AAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA374&lpg=PA374&dq=burning+lense+with+ice&source=web&ots=NA5zC2KCH8&sig=pA7-A7zjvd_tLzsn7yxujQQhT94……

Fire from Ice Lens

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