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Ideally, the pilot light will burn with a steady, blue flame, indicating that it's safe to start the fire, but if you notice the flame is burning yellow, flickering, or has been extinguished ...
Generally, the color of a flame may be red, orange, blue, yellow, or white, and is dominated by blackbody radiation from soot and steam. When additional chemicals are added to the fuel burning, their atomic emission spectra can affect the frequencies of visible light radiation emitted - in other words, the flame appears in a different color ...
The yellow flame is luminous due to small soot particles in the flame, which are heated to incandescence. The yellow flame is considered "dirty" because it leaves a layer of carbon on whatever it is heating. When the burner is regulated to produce a hot, blue flame, it can be nearly invisible against some backgrounds.
The yellow color in this gas flame does not arise from the black-body emission of soot particles ... Bunsen burner flame 900–1,600 °C (1,652–2,912 °F ...
One of the most familiar instances of a luminous flame is produced by a Bunsen burner. This burner has a controllable air supply and a constant gas jet: when the air supply is reduced, a highly luminous, and thus visible, orange 'safety flame' is produced. For heating work, the air inlet is opened and the burner produces a much hotter blue flame.
The color of a neutral flame is semi-transparent purple or blue. [1] This flame is optimal for many uses because it does not oxidize or deposit soot onto surfaces. Bunsen burner flames with different oxygen levels: 1. diffusion flame, 2. reducing flame, 3. fuel-rich neutral flame, 4. neutral flame
Different flame types of a Bunsen burner depend on oxygen supply. On the left a rich fuel mixture with no premixed oxygen produces a yellow sooty diffusion flame, and on the right a lean fully oxygen premixed flame produces no soot and the flame color is produced by molecular radical band emission.
This is a rare example of a diffusion flame which does not produce much soot and does not therefore have a typical yellow flame. The common flame of a candle is a classic example of a diffusion flame. The yellow color of the flame is due to the large number of incandescent soot particles in the incomplete combustion reaction of the flame.