what causes the wasabi like burning sensation in your nose after lighting a match?

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what causes the wasabi like burning sensation in your nose after lighting a match?

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Most matches have a sulfur coating, the sulfur forms sulfuric acid when in contact with water and because the tissues in your nose are wet and very sensitive you feel the acid burning.

So the sensation might be the same, it is in this case real, the burning feeling is real I mean with that.

BTW I am not native English speaking,