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2. Are scented candles bad for you? What the science says - AOL

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   What the candle science shows. When you burn a paraffin candle, it releases volatile organic compounds, or VOCs — gases that easily and quickly vaporize into the air at room temperature, said Dr ...

3. The Chemical History of a Candle - Wikipedia

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   A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle. Griffin, Bohn & Co. Full text of The Chemical History Of A Candle from Project Gutenberg; Walker, Mark; Gröger, Martin; Schlüter, Kirsten; Mosler, Bernd (1 January 2008). "A Bright Spark: Open Teaching of Science Using Faraday's Lectures on Candles". Journal of Chemical Education.

4. 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 .

5. Candlepower - Wikipedia

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   At the time the UK established candlepower as a unit, the French standard of light was based on the illumination from a Carcel burner, which defined the illumination that emanates from a lamp burning pure colza oil (obtained from the seed of the plant Brassica campestris) at a defined rate. Ten standard candles equaled about one Carcel burner.

6. Logology (science) - Wikipedia

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   Imagine that I take a burning candle, charcoal, water, paper, zinc, sugar, sulfuric acid, and so on, 100 objects in all, and combine them with one another, that is, bring into contact first two at a time: charcoal with flame, water with flame, sugar with flame, zinc with flame, sugar with water, etc.

7. How to make your candles last longer, according to candle experts

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8. Chemical oxygen generator - Wikipedia

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   A chlorate candle, or an oxygen candle, is a cylindrical chemical oxygen generator that contains a mix of sodium chlorate and iron powder, which when ignited smolders at about 600 °C (1,100 °F), producing sodium chloride, iron oxide, and oxygen at a fixed rate of about 6.5 man-hours per kilogram of the mixture. The mixture has an indefinite ...

9. Are Candles Bad for Your Health? Experts Explain - AOL

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