flint

[flɪnt]

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A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
Anything figuratively hard.

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