Why shaking a lighter makes it work ?

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I’ve been smoking for the better part of the last 12 years (Don’t smoke people, best way to stop is to never start), and I’ve been doing something most smokers I know do (mostly by habit) but oddly enough, also for practical use.

When your lighter does not work after you strike it 3-5 times, you shake it up, and boom, it works.

Why ? I’d suppose it’s linked to the way lighter gas work, but… I’m 5 :'(

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Depends also in the flint stone of the lighter . Sometimes it gets eaten up and you have to try harder to make a sparkle but even after you do that the liquid is in the bottom of the lighter so shaking it will turn it into gas and so it ignites

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