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flintlock mechanism

A gunlock mechanism that uses a piece of flint to strike against a peice of steel which produces sparks to ignite the priming powder of a flintlock firearm
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flintlock mechanism

Summary

flintlock mechanism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (193 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flintlock mechanism's image is recorded as FlintlockMechanismPlain.png[2].
  • flintlock mechanism's subclass of is recorded as lock[3].
  • flintlock mechanism's subclass of is recorded as firearm action[4].
  • flintlock mechanism's Commons category is recorded as Flintlock mechanisms[5].
  • flintlock mechanism's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75831[6].
  • flintlock mechanism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02trth[7].
  • flintlock mechanism's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 142394534[8].
  • flintlock mechanism's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 37597[9].

Why It Matters

flintlock mechanism ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (193 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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