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2. 7 Candle Safety Tips You Absolutely Should Be Following

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   An expert shares must-follow safety tips for burning candles in your home. ... Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

3. 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 ...

4. The Chemical History of a Candle - Wikipedia

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   Title page to the first edition. Intended for young beginners, for whom it is well adapted, as an introduction to the study of chemistry. [3]According to Frank Wilczek: . It is a wonderful laying-bare of surprising facts and intricate structure in a (superficially) familiar process — the burning of a candle.

5. Flame - Wikipedia

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   Zones in a candle flame The interior of the luminous zone can be much hotter, beyond 1,500 °C (2,730 °F). [3] Color and temperature of a flame are dependent on the type of fuel involved in the combustion. For example, when a lighter is held to a candle, the applied heat causes the fuel molecules in the candle wax to vaporize.

6. Fire - Wikipedia

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   A burning candle. Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. [1] [a] At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames are produced. The flame is the visible portion of the fire. Flames consist ...

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

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8. 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.

9. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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   The burning of a solid material may appear to lose weight if the mass of combustion gases (such as carbon dioxide and water vapor) are not taken into account. The original mass of flammable material and the mass of the oxygen consumed (typically from the surrounding air) equals the mass of the flame products (ash, water, carbon dioxide, and ...