Mythbusters: Exploding cigarette lighter part 1

What could make a cigarette lighter explode? Adam and Jamie find out.

[@Tnenamrep2]

I love these early MythBusters episodes, and the simpler myths.

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

They were stupid back then and got a lot of obvious stuff wrong because they didn't know how much of the show was supposed to be fun, entertaining, or scientific, so they cut back on being scientifically thorough and a lot of these neat early myths ended up with bad testing and results. I wish they would have revisited literally every myth again but with a different approach, then do the same approach, then keep doing that a couple hundred times to be sure their results are true

[@johnnyholmes8840]

It was way better back then, the new ones, with whoever those guys are can never come close.

[@bigsmall246]

@@Canzandridas yea but they got some myths wrong, like "microwaving tap water doesn't cause superheating"

[@Trund27]

We need a reboot!!!!!!!

[@Ward1706]

"The only thing that differentiates you and me and a couple of 14 year old pyromaniacs; is ballistic glass."

[@SheepdogSmokey]

I'll have you know, I'm 43.

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

@Reece Cristiano no one gives a shit. Why are you hacking your girlfriends Instagram? Piece of crap.

[@godzillasauris]

I love adams jokes🤣🤣🤣

[@kaitracksmalgom]

I’m 19 and if given the chance yes I might set something ablaze safely as possible

[@Ward1706]

Season prior. I’m old enough to remember watching them when they came out.

[@Fahrvergnugen]

I love it when Jamie starts chuckling when he blows something up.

[@freakyskull516]

when i was a child i threw a lighter at the ground (concrete) as hard as i could and it exploded sending a sharp piece if plastic into my lip pulled it out, bled a little, lied to my mom about what happened to my lip, and went on with my day but it spooked me a little.

[@KamenRiderRaiden]

I taped one to a sledgehammer once and swung like i was at a "Test your strength" game..... fuckin thing took off like a rocket

[@kriss3829]

Thank god you didn’t lose an eye lmao

[@graemebarnes3445]

@@kriss3829 we used to burst them on peoples heads in class lol

[@williamtruett3480]

Bro once when I was playing video games my older brother grabbed a lighter and looked me in the eyes and said wanna play a game then proceeded to smash the lighter against my desk as hard as he could it exploded in his hand and a peace hit me then we laughed in pain

[@sumbigdumkunt]

@@graemebarnes3445 yeah I had a bloke throw his lighter across our factory and it landed on the supervisors hardhat, exploded and scared the absolute shit out of him. Was an amazing shot and boss man loved it

[@hornetscales8274]

Man, every time something goes up in smoke, or crashes spectacularly, or..... Adam is always the first to laugh about it. Absolutely wonderful show.

[@_just_another_filthy_redcoat]

Lol imagine walking around with a small bomb in your pocket - takes a pull on a vape -

[@froyocrew]

then pulls out samsung s9

[@TWBIAP]

1:56 eh if you weld in flannel you deserve whats coming to you.

[@graemebarnes3445]

exactly. true welders wear nylon tracksuits

[@blackdragon6627]

@@graemebarnes3445 no true welders don't wear shirts

[@brandonlozano7158]

@@blackdragon6627 naw true welders don't wear skin

[@blackdragon6627]

@@brandonlozano7158 naw true welders use welds as skin

[@brandoncallahan9289]

@@blackdragon6627 naw welders true as skin use welds

[@JonthePurplePeopleEater]

Only lighter I've had explode on me was one I left out on the patio on a hot Arkansas summer went swimming, got out grabbed the hot lighter with a cold hand and boom plastic shrapnel in my shoulder lol.

[@Youtubecensoredmyusername]

Should of bought a bic instead of the Chinese translucent ones

[@JonthePurplePeopleEater]

@@KZbincensoredmyusername That was a bic lol.

[@princesscarl1656]

No lighter can deal with 90° plus 70% humidity, once it's been in a car all day. Let alone direct sun contact. Since it was a bic, you'd have been best just taking it while you swam. At least it wouldn't have blown up. Wouldn't have lit your cig though. A bic is meant for your pocket. Hawaiians definitely don't leave their lighters lying in the sun, why would you? Either way, lighters are meant for dry, room temperature areas. Like your pocket. They don't even work when it gets below 30° degrees. The butane will be too thick to combust. The slightest gust of air screws with them too. This is why Zippos are a thing. Since they don't use butane either, they use a form of grill lighter fluid, their combustion rates and temperatures are different. Butane is ungodly low to become gas. Around 50° does it. Isobutane would be likely a little higher. Alcohol is rather high. I think that's 120° or so.

[@TWBIAP]

@Hans Pebble if you wanna be technical its actually made from petroleum naphtha.

[@zackhall2681]

@@princesscarl1656 dude shut the fuck up. No one cares about your bullshit lighter research.

[@Chevdriver]

-throw a lighter at a wall or something, they will also "explode" as kids we did it alot, kinda fun and also a good way to get rid of old lighters.

[@MyWeedIsVeryGood]

Not with fire though. The gas pops out. Which isn't technically an explosion unless it's ignited

[@DerMarkus1982]

@@MyWeedIsVeryGood Put a Z*ppo near it... 😉

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

In high school, while waiting for the buss to school, a buddy of mine had a lighter that was in the shape of a beer bottle. He dropped it, on purpose, and it "exploded".

[@katara520]

I had a lighter literally just explode on my bed I was right beside it I still have the hole in my bed from it

[@newbkiller123]

its easy to pop a lighter just dash it at the ground

[@MrSupercar55]

I can confirm this is 100% accurate.

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mash

[@gp8666]

Thats what i did when i was a lil kid every time i found one 😂

[@chodeoriki4113]

Did this when I was like 12 and a part flew into my mates eye and I completely shat my pants. Luckily he was fine.

[@robertostler6733]

A friend and I were walking through a neighborhood late one night and someone's dog came running out of their garage right at us barking suddenly there was a pop right in front of the dog. My friend threw his lighter at the ground in front of the dog. Fuck me I though he was magical for a minute. The dog ran back to his home.

[@malango255]

i've seen them explode multiple times, not just once. my friend dropped one once and it exploded just from being dropped.

[@paulvinco7185]

Lol, folding laundry while watching this and what did I pull out...a lighter. 🤪

[@patcholi3201]

was the dryer hot enough

[@RealRealist515]

Wow!

[@bucky13]

If lighters exploded in the dryer i'd probably have to have mine insured..

[@patcholi3201]

@@bucky13 check coverage

[@AW-xt4lx]

Wear eye protection, welding safety 101. seriously though that's a bad example....

[@runardarriviarsson1092]

karl warren they were standing behind a glass wall

[@radihaydos95]

Runar I am fairly sure he was talking about a light shield so they don't damage there eyes from the bright light

[@chthaman]

He definitely were, its not only bad for your eyes because uv and that shit, it can also make your eyes hurt and feel like you have sand in them when it damages some layer in the eye and that shit sucks

[@nerfinator03]

Rúnar Darri Viðarsson now here's someone who knows his shit! Tempered glass filters a lot of rays. During one nuclear test some scientist wanted a better view of the initial explosion so he sat in his car behind the windshield.

[@deaths0xz]

Morty as long as you have safety glasses or something to block the rays you’ll never get a flash or that sand feeling in your eyes, as long as you’re protected you can stare as long as you want, it’ll just hurt to look at but won’t give your eyes a sunburn unless there’s direct contact

[@ostermanumbrellaco.7445]

I’m here watching this clip because this episode helped free a jailed innocent man after 35 years in prison. Thank you Mythbusters!

[@blakemitchell735]

How?

[@jazzscott9109]

I once was without an ashtray and needed both hands - so I laid down a disposable (flat) lighter and laid my lit cigarette across it...ermmmm..... "just for a moment",,, ...then forgot all about it till the cigarette melted a tiny pin-hole in the lighter and there was this "WHOOOSH!!!" as a four foot flame suddenly shot out ... scared the willies out of me!

[@gotYOUR3s]

Its amazing that you can see the flame disappear and reignite in the same spot after the lighter is gone

[@SheepdogSmokey]

4:07 - Even when I first saw this, well before I was a firefighter, I knew that ambient heat, even at what a clothes dryer can produce, isn't going to work, the lighter would need to be damaged/defective, and somehow cause a spark, or the dryer would need to be damaged/defective and cause a spark, to provide ignition.

[@Supasavage69]

I’ve had one blow up by itself while laying on a dresser over night and blew two flames out both chambers on the side lol but hint don’t buy the cheap clear colored ones

[@ThreeXcore]

FOUR!!...three..two..one lol :)

[@cslack813]

I’ve had a lighter explode in a dryer. I think they are forgetting 1 vital thing. LAUNDRY! you know, the stuff that gets hot in the machine, and more importantly, the stuff that builds intense static energy while drying.

[@SANCHEZLEO90]

CSlack just happened to me today I forgot my lighter in my shorts and boom

[@cslack813]

leonardo sanchez happened to me multiple times. If they get something like this wrong it makes you question their other tests. I think it was pretty boneheaded of them to not mimic normal conditions where the lighter would explode-i.e. with laundry in the drier getting the whole thing hot. If you put the lighter by itself then it just bounces inside the machine a ton and doesn’t get as hot as it would in a machine that has fabrics to retain the heat and build up static.

[@TheShorts5555]

I've thrown plenty of lighters on fires before, but the interesting thing is they just pop. No explosion, no fireball. Just a small jet of flame if I'm lucky. What I do like though (and because I live in Aus, we can't get fireworks) is tie 15 or so sparklers around 1-2 lighters, then make a 'fuse' sparkler that I can light. Just throw it and watch, you'll get a nice bang and a shower of sparks

[@3starperfectdeer233]

I love how we all believed they were like the bestest besties but in reality they were annoyed by each

[@TheGary108]

Adam said in an interview that he respected Jamie and they were great coworkers but they just don’t have any more in common to be best friends.

[@CodeineCoffee]

They spent 12+ hours a day with each other most days on work projects for over a decade. I’m not surprised that they didn’t hang out after work.

[@nataliealphonse4634]

​@@CodeineCoffee yeah no kidding, Jamie was literally Adams boss too. I don't dislike most of the bosses I've had but I can't say I exactly would have wanted to get beers with them after work y'know?

[@tacomas9602]

just appreciating the fact someone uploaded all these videos. thanks

[@DerekMoore82]

Over the course of my life, I've had a few lighters blow up inside a hot parked car. I'd return to the car to find the aftermath, with plastic shards where a lighter used to be. I've never seen it happen in real time. In 40 years it's only happened twice so it's rare, but it can happen.

[@DeathEgg666]

0:51 clean your tips you maniacs!

[@cmen6895]

nah, just gotta sand her down.

[@graemebarnes3445]

@@cmen6895 eh its mig, as long as theres a hole its fine lol

[@cralixthegameking4408]

Technically it does explode when they just hit it with the golf club do to the pressure more like a gas canister exploding there is just no fire

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

it hurts to see adam and jamie watching a mig welder spark without masks, i've taken a few welding classes in my time and watching the sparks without protection feels like getting sand in your eye sockets, it's itchy as all hell

[@tacomas9602]

They're looking at the lighter not the arc. they're just shielding the upper half of their vision.

[@Myrkky100]

7:45 It's just so nice to see people who just really love their work :)

[@BLCKVD]

There's one simple way to also explode these tiny bastards, me and my friends use to just throw them in huge speeds straight to asphalt when it didn't give pretty much any fire from it anymore, so simply just throw to asphalt in huge speed and BOOM :D

[@eslesss]

Adam's shirt: failure is always an option Totally agree and live by it...in a way :D

[@immortalsofar5314]

I don't know about combustion but I left a plastic lighter in my car on a hot, summer's day and returned to find a load of shattered plastic.

[@Solnoric]

I wanna know if they ever testing the golf machine at the driving range.

[@ruthgar9753]

I want to know if they ever tried Jamie's idea with the bowling ball :)

[@scotts918]

5:57 - Jamie laughing is pure

[@SheepdogSmokey]

Clothes dryer, unless the metal on the lighter hits something perfectly, you have 2 of 3 things needed. Heat and Fuel, without an ignition source, are dangerous, but not likely to blow up a lighter. For the welder, the sparks were the ignition, not the ambient heat.

[@xxDRLCxx]

many of my lighters popped in my jeans pockets when in the dryer.it may have been what you said or the lighter breaking when tumbling

[@420lovless]

I've have thousands in my pockets in the dryer and not one has popped.. Just regular Bic lighters.

[@jacobmortimore]

@@420lovless same I've never had one Pop in the dryer.

[@Grandmas_Table]

The "FORE!......3..2..1..." Countdown made me chuckle lol

[@UnwovenSleeve]

Adam: “Have you ever played a round of gold” Jamie: yes Adam: REALLY?!?

[@djae6083]

Unwoven Sleeve golf?

[@wolfmantroy6601]

I once had a piece of slag melt into a Bic lighter in my t-shirt pocket. I didn't notice till lunch time when I went to light a cigarette and my new lighter was out of fuel.

[@sleevelessace]

Adam probably all got those lighters from his car 😂😂😂

[@brendanmatelan2129]

5:57, Makes me laugh everytime.

[@ss-jg1te]

Thank you for the videos I know its a few years too late but these have brought alot of joy for my gf and niece :)

[@HappyChonger]

I had a lighter explode on me once. It was in the dashboard of the van while I was driving along, and it just exploded. It just went bang and shattered into pieces, I had been using it as a bottle opener though so that may of weakened it.

[@mickberghefer4447]

Those really cheap ass crack light can explode just from dropping it. My buddy dropped one on carpet and it exploded.

[@Deep_Ro]

Lol I've run soo many lighters threw the dryer I could of told them that one wouldn't work haha

[@prodbybabygod7411]

Ima welder. Back pocket works wonders 🤣

[@LinkinPark4Ever1996]

5:18 when I was a kid we used to throw them to the ground to make them explode. No fireball because no ignition source, but the liquid butane when it comes out of its container it quickly expands into gas so you get a pop

[@Redfour5]

I had one of the cheap clear or yellow plastic ones that was sitting on a table in the direct early afternoon sun that blew up and scared the poo out of me. Some of the pieces were very sharp but I was about five feet away. Afterwards, I hypothesized that because it was clear with the thick plastic including internal support plastic, that it acted like a lense and focused the heat causing internal temperatures and/or pressure leading to the explosion. I saw it out of the corner of my eye as it went and it appeared to blow from pressure with a very slight burst of flame upon exposure to the air as the gas dispersed. I thought of this episode.

[@RealRealist515]

Redfour5 you’re an absolute genius!!!!

[@lilnastyy1604]

When I was younger, when your non refillable disposable lighters ran out you’d pelt it at the floor as it pops, no flame, just pressure 😂

[@ConanRider]

They blocked their view of the mig welder with their hands.

[@ThunderChunky101]

We used to open the valve on adjustable lighters until they stuck open, light them and THEN hit with a golf club. Worked every time.

[@MarijnKonings]

At 0:52, dammit Adam, clean that nozel!

[@Sunprism]

1:54 RIP Rip Taylor

[@juanhunose1]

I left one on top of my car dashboard. The heat from the sun coming through made it explode! No flames fortunately, I guess the pressure build up just ruptured it?

[@mikerich7848]

Yep

[@blushingmushroom1949]

I came out to my car to find pieces of my lighter all over the place from such an event. I saw nothing though.

[@sharpie443]

I learned to make them explode back in high-school. I can modify one with my pocket knife to shoot a flame big enough to melt the top and set the rest of the liquid off. Neat trick to do at an outdoor party just make sure not to throw it near anyone. .

[@superstar5123]

the 2001: a space odyssey joke/reference was hilarious!

[@CLCinflorida]

TODAY, I was lighting a Cigarette, and the FREAKING LIGHTER EXPLODED IN MT HAND, the butane spewed all over my Hand, on my Couch, I dropped the lighter, it fell on the Carpet and caught it on fire.... THERE WAS NO WELDING, ONLY LIGHTING A CIGARETTE, and it went off like a freaking Bomb, with a loud band and Ball of Fire... No Dryer, no external sources, I WAS JUST LIGHTING A CIGARETTE WITH A BRAND NEW LIGHTER... now how the hell did that happen... ???????? 🤔🤔🤔 MYTH BUSTED MY ASS, IT HAPPENED.

[@thisisntanoption702]

I welded for a year with a lighter in my pocket. Oops

[@TWBIAP]

2:46 no its not it's a deflagration, it has to be supersonic to be an explosion. get your facts straight adam!

[@derekwall200]

well BIC lighters contain butane liquid under pressure. a normal BIC lighter is pressurized to 25 PSI at room temperature, but at 135-140 degrees (temps found in hot cars) the pressure can climb to about 100-150 PSI. and from what i have read they can be like mini hand grenades and can send shrapnel flying everywhere which can kill

[@sweeflyboy]

Shooting a disposable lighter with a pellet gun while a burning candle is nearby is fun. Trust me, I've done it. The fireball is quite large and when the shockwave hits you it almost winds you.

[@Floccinaucinihilipilificator]

happened to me this month, a super sharp piece of plastic missed my eye by an inch.

[@derekwall200]

and i am surprised at 8:04 the gas was still able to ignite even after the club hit blew the flame out.

[@davidhenderson3400]

I know a man that had his car windshield cracked when lighter was left in the hot sun. No flame but when the casing failed it cracked the windshield

[@metalinyourhead3604]

I actually think I might have had a lighter go through the dryer. It didn’t go boom.

[@elektrobear2027]

Had one of these go off in my pocket when I worked in an aluminium foundry. No flames but it was kinda chocking though.

[@xxDRLCxx]

does not damage the clothing though

[@LadyTink]

exactly :) I was hoping someone else caught that XD 6:49

[@Facebooker413]

You can actually just throw some of these real hard on the ground and do it, especially if the lighter's mechanism is compromised in some way like it's rusty or busted in some way

[@static-san]

The Hyneman Humour - so good to see!

[@nmlb_psychosis7137]

I have a theory about the lighter in the dryer myth. So the myth was ‘if you forget your lighter in you pants pocket and throw them in the dryer, the lighter will explode.’ So, they only had the lighter in the dryer and i can only assume that it bounced around enough to let some butane out from it hitting on the trigger. What if the pants/other clothes that are getting dry create static and thats what sets off the butane? Although the lighter is in the pocket i would still assume that at least a little butane would get out from it bouncing around.

[@drcovell]

If you are a REAL welder you already know to keep your lighter in an inside pocket. You also know to pull your jeans over your boot tops AND keep any ragged strings of cotton trimmed off the leg bottoms or the day can suddenly get warmer when you least expect it!

[@davidaward82]

the most dangerous way for a disposable to go up isn't from fire. it's from ambient heat. I have friend who forgot they'd left one on top of a wall mounted gas fire, they left the room to make coffee and heard an explosion. came back to find shards of plastic embedded in the walls of the room

[@tylorevans]

I truly believe that a dryer can be an sorce or an ignition if the dryer melts the plastic on the lighter then the butane gas leaks out can find an ignition sorce like if the dryer is a gas dryer the butane can be ignited by the gas flame I work at a used appliance shop I have taken dryers apart many times i have found lighters which have fell out of the drum into the dryes inside if it gets close to the heating element or the gas flame can cause an explosion I do see this happening and its probably happened before. Just found a news article on the news republic back in 2002 a man working at a dry cleaners was injured by a disposal lighter that exploded with enough force it blew the dryers door off so it can happen.

[@stenbak88]

I have left many big lighters through the wash and dryer, the lighters are fine every single time

[@alvinfamador6861]

here in philippines its true that lighter explode sometimes especially the crystal one, sometimes we'll throw that on the concrete wall it explode wirhout fire only the pressure inside from the butane. maybe the presure is already too high for the plastic.

[@h.p.734]

I love these episodes!!

[@vladimirlastraud5740]

The light is extremely bright and puts out a decent amount of I think.. UV rays, enough that if you don't wear gloves or long sleeves it can sunburn you in half an hour maybe, also can cause blindness.

[@geographyinaction7814]

Guys used to walk out to the gatehouse at our pulp mill, a light a cigarette with a Bic, the security/First Aid attendants would run out and exchange brand new Zippo's for the disposable.

[@charlieguiang8021]

nope, got a cheap lighter(clear lighters not branded), heat it up under the sun and throw into solid ground. it will explode to bits

[@squiggofant]

You don't have to heat it up, it's the pressure of the gas that causes the "explosion".

[@akkudakkupl]

squiggofant But then again the hotter the liquid gas the more energy it has - faster vaporisation - higher pressure - bigger bang.

[@kevinjohnson7300]

Ive had lighters explode a bunch. Ive dropped them on accident and BOOM right next to my foot lol

[@BlueLineofthesky]

It happened to me. A few years ago, in a very hot August day, I was in my car and my cigarette lighter (the cheap plastic transparent ones) was on the top the board of the car, under the windscreen. The sun was directly on it. In 30-40 minutes, (I was talking with a colleague, inside the car), POOOOP the cigarette lighter exploded. Very powerful explosion. No fire. I scared me for life :) Smoking is really dangerous. :)

[@owenmaher5129]

I absolutely love the myth but I just want to point out quickly, they should have absolutely not just put their hands in front of their eyes for the light from the welder. That light can be brighter than the sun at times and can cause serious eye damage. That's why you see all the heavy ace shields when people are welding.

[@TheNaturalGamer1]

That's just an old wife's tale

[@owenmaher5129]

@@TheNaturalGamer1 I heard this fact from my metal fab and welding shop teacher during exploratory this year. Maybe it's true, maybe it isn't this is just what I heard. Also yes that's a fast reply I happened to look at my notifications.

[@jimbob234567890]

same as a banger firework, hold it flat on your hand burned hand, hold it in a fist missing fingers, most of the pressure would have escaped through the fabric.

[@joebananatube]

When they go down the vent on a dashboard of a chevy, and the heater is on high, they're loud, but no fire.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

The dryer thing would eventually work when the plastic on the lighter melted. Some dryers get up to 350 degrees. Anyone who has taken an electric clothes dryer apart knows that right behind those holes in the back of the drum is a large, glowing hot heating coil. The one in my particular dryer is so big that it goes all the way around the entire diameter of the back of the drum itself and is just inches away from the back. That's the ignition source.

[@k80_]

I think the static electricity from the clothing is a bigger factor than pure heat

[@TerrenceCallahan]

"White boy high five!" Lololol 😂

[@fergusoddjob]

used to muck around hitting the really cheap lighters with tennis racquets and sometimes they'd go up in flames quite spectacularly, esp at night.

[@koppadasao]

Jamie "The Walrus" Hyneman laughing? What a sight!

[@TheUltimateULTRA]

I actually did this/ don’t know how commonly this happens. - Threw a lighter on the floor a couple meters away quite hard and it blew up. No one was hurt but if it went off near me i think it’d have burnt me the explosion and bang was very loud (does this mean the lighter must’ve been cracked slightly to release some fuel to allow for a spark)

[@mrfrump1889]

Discarded an empty lighter in an ashtray once, the ashtray ended on the other side of the room when it went pop.

[@Halvblodsprinsen100]

And this is why i have a re-usable lighter, with a metal exterior.

[@Kleavers]

I have to say the high speed footage they got from this is amazing :)

[@jacobgonzales6713]

It’s so hard to believe they weren’t friends at all during this. I think they just don’t have an extremely loose term as to who they have as “friends”. As intellectuals, they likely hold many acquaintances with a small circle of friends and family. That’s my belief. But in my eyes, they’ll always be the Master Mythbusters

[@TheGary108]

I like to think they were great working buddies. They weren’t close enough to go out for drinks after works, but they sure as hell had respect for one another.

[@letsbehonest4221]

We used to throw those cheap plastic lighter at brickwalls and make them explode but most would just pop. .. just for a bit of random fun...

[@TheLondonForever00]

When I was at uni we'd all been out and done pills and allsorts. We all round a 6ft wide table and we were all being stupid. I held a lighter over a candle as I was too spangled to even think what I was doing. All the others sat memorised watching in awe until it exploded witha full tank. The blast was the size of the table and we all flew off our chairs. As we got up with bits of plastic in our hair, we realised some of us didn't have proper eyebrows anymore. Needless to say we all had lectures the next day. Got a few laughs though. 😂

[@joshualewis8077]

1. Dirty MIG gun 2. He just watched the arc

[@anonymousanomaly5676]

I can confirm that smashing a lighter with a rock will make it go pop. I was a curious 12 year old.

[@josephsharp9939]

I actually had a lighter pop in my car, though it didn’t explode. It was a cheap, structurally weak lighter and it was in my car on a hot day. I came back to find lighter shrapnel in the front and back seats.

[@chrismartin4892]

From personal experience, I could have told you that lighters don't blow up in the dryer. I have ran them through by mistake many times.

[@ddmcd1215]

Correct me if I'm wrong but a lighter in the dryer would have clothes as well and those clothes could potentially cause static giving the lighter its ignition

[@marktabaczynski2826]

They did this wrong. They didn’t put clothes in the dryer with it and they only used one brand. A bic lighter and a transparent lighter are two separate experiments.