How do candles burn? (and how do you light them with smoke?)

29/07/2021 27 min Episodio 106
How do candles burn? (and how do you light them with smoke?)

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#106
Candles are simple enough right? Probably nothing crazy going on right? Wrong. Where does all the wax go? And how does the wick just keep on burning so long? Let's find out.
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References from this episode

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4566
https://edu.rsc.org/lesson-plans/simple-chemical-reactions-how-do-candles-work-11-14-years/63.article
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/adventures-in-chemistry/experiments/flame-out.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/make-a-candle-flame-jump/
https://inchemistry.acs.org/atomic-news/shining-light-on-candles.html

 
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