Question

Which sentence from the text describes a problem with Walker's match that the phosphorus match tried to solve?

A sudden gust of wind or a sudden shower would put it out.
Although Walker's match did not require the bottle of acid, nevertheless it was not a good one.
A druggist in a small English town, tipped a splint with sulphur, chlorate of potash, and sulphid of antimony.
It could be lighted only by hard rubbing, and it sputtered and threw fire in all directions.

Answer 1

It could be lighted only by hard rubbing, and it sputtered and threw fire in all directions.

Step-by-step explanation:

John Walker was a druggist, who in 1827 invented a friction match. He experimented by tipping a mixture of sulphur, chlorate of potash, and sulphid of antimony, and frictioned it against a sandpaper that ignited a fire.

After several years of experimenting, Walker subsituted chemicals with phosphorus. The phosphorus match is considered to be the match because before the chemical friction was hard rubbing and sputtered and would ablaze in all directions.

Thus the statement that describes the problem that how phosphorus match solved is in the last statment. Therefore, the correct answer is option D.