Quote Originally Posted by pu ekot
You all are really, really, really fucking ridiculous.

A BIC lighter is a ghetto ass butane ligther. It burns butane, just like any other non-zippo lighter, it uses a flint to ignite said butane, like most lighters, and other than that it's just a non-adjustable valve with a plastic resovoir.

A "butane lighter" is any lighter that burns butane, including BIC lighters. I don't know what you are referring to as a "butane lighter", but it popular gas station brands are Djeep, Bic, and Ronson, as well as no-name chinese ones. Expensive brands of butane lighters (some are in excess of $100) work in the same way, but usually use a piezoelectric lighter to ignite the butane. A piezoelectric lighter makes a small spark by compressing a quartz crystal (I honestly don't know exactly how that works).

A "jet" or "torch" lighter is a lighter that mixes butane with air before ignition, make a much hotter flame. Sometime manufactureres put a small piece of metal at the top to make a colored flame, such as copper for a green flame. These tend to be more effecient, but they can also bring out harmful chemicals in metals.

A zippo is, well, we all know what a zippo is.

In the picture(from left to right):
Ronson butane refill
Bic lighter
Slim refillable butane lighter
No-name chinese lighter
Zippo lighter
No-name chinese torch lighter

Now lets all calm down, realize that unless you are talking about a torch lighter, it was just the placebo effect, and stop yelling.

(keep in mind I'm college educated, unlike most people on this forum, and have been a pyro since most of you were in diapers)

LMAO. I was hoping I'd be the one to deliver this post. I can't believe this thread went that long without it.