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Round cotton wick and its modern longer lasting fibreglass equivalent in certain case can far extend time between replacements.

Often used in test equipment cotton wick free of contaminates as a base line to work from, also used in fragrance burners and aromatherapy lamps. Fiberglass with its multi core is suited outdoor lanterns such as grave side lamps and oil filled candles in churches, cotton shrouded wick which has faster capillary action can used in oil refillable pillar candles, memorial lamps and vigil burners. Early home made versions of E cigarettes used fibre glass filament wick for the heat source and some of the worlds most famous petrol lighters use a cotton reinforced with metal wire. Miners and railroad signal warning safety lamps use round wick for a failsafe kindler flame. Traditional ships caulking made from cotton has been used for centuries to form a water tight deck seal when used in conjunction with linseed oil which is derived from flax fibre. In roman times lamps made from terracotta burnt using a primitive olive oil soaked wick made from handmade locally available hemp cotton flax blend wound onto a wooden spindle, modern equivalents since the industrial revolution have been spun for better quality and precise production making them more sustainable, as a result of this manufacturing process the development of ropes advanced using materials such as sisal, nylon, polyester and Kevlar.

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