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The '''Sacred Flame''', | The '''Sacred Flame''', or '''Flame of Life''', was the heat source that created the life-prolonging [[Elixir of Life]], guarded by the [[Sisterhood of Karn]]. | ||
The Sacred Flame was fuelled by an underground natural gas pocket that escaped through a fissure in the rock, acting like a natural gas nozzle. | The Sacred Flame was fuelled by an underground natural gas pocket that escaped through a fissure in the rock, acting like a natural gas nozzle. | ||
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Over countless millennia, [[carbon]] and soot had clogged the nozzle. The Flame had been reduced to barely more than a [[inch]] high, resulting in almost no generation of the Elixir. The [[Fourth Doctor]] solved the problem by placing a firecracker wrapped in [[blue touch paper]] in the fissure, blasting the soot loose and re-igniting the Flame. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'') | Over countless millennia, [[carbon]] and soot had clogged the nozzle. The Flame had been reduced to barely more than a [[inch]] high, resulting in almost no generation of the Elixir. The [[Fourth Doctor]] solved the problem by placing a firecracker wrapped in [[blue touch paper]] in the fissure, blasting the soot loose and re-igniting the Flame. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]'') | ||
[[Category:Power sources]] | [[Category:Power sources]] | ||
[[Category:Gases]] | [[Category:Gases]] | ||
[[Category:Religious concepts]] | [[Category:Religious concepts]] | ||
