9/7/18 Fox https://fox61.com/2018/09/07/bridgeport-woman-blows-up-hand-mistaking-dynamite-for-a-candle/ reports a woman lit a candle left by previous owners of the home, and it turned out to be a stick of dynamite.
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I'm suspecting that what she lit was a "quarter stick":
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_stick
which is so-named because of dimensional resemblance to a quarter-stick of dynamite, but contains flash powder rather than nitroglycerin.
It may be that the brand name is "quarter stick of dynamite"