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2. 7 Candle Safety Tips You Absolutely Should Be Following

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   "A trimmed wick allows the candle to burn clean, evenly, and slowly, extending the life of your candle up to 20% longer," she says. She compares trimming a candle wick to another routine chore ...

3. Candle wick - Wikipedia

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   A candle wick or lamp wick is usually made of braided cotton that holds the flame of a candle or oil lamp. A candle wick works by capillary action, conveying ("wicking") the fuel to the flame. When the liquid fuel, typically melted candle wax, reaches the flame it then vaporizes and combusts. In other words, the wick brings the liquified wax up ...

4. Is Your Candle Wick Mushrooming? Here’s How to Fix It - AOL

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   All you need to do is trim the wick on your candle (when it’s no longer burning). You can find a wick trimmer on Amazon for less than $10 , if you don’t already have one.

5. Candle snuffer - Wikipedia

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   A candle snuffer, candle extinguisher, or douter is an instrument used to extinguish burning candles, consisting of a small cone at the end of a handle. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The use of a snuffer helps to avoid problems associated with blowing hot wax and it avoids the smoke and odor of a smoldering wick which results from simply blowing a candle out.

6. Kerosene lamp - Wikipedia

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   Flat-wick lamps have the lowest light output, center-draft round-wick lamps have 3–4 times the output of flat-wick lamps, and pressurized lamps have higher output yet; the range is from 8 to 100 lumens. A kerosene lamp producing 37 lumens for 4 hours per day for a month (120 hours) consumes about 3 litres (6.3 US pt; 5.3 imp pt) of kerosene.

7. Where Does Candle Wax Go When You Burn a Candle? - AOL

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   People who burn candles frequently know that the process works best if you trim the wick. If a wick is too long, the combustion process sometimes gets thrown off, says the candle company Homesick .