Show WAX MUST FIRST BE HEATED impossible to get light from wax candle without the presence of necessary gases A wax candle really is a gas torch you tou will find that when you apply a lighted match to the wick of a candle it will not light readily you have to hold the match to the wick until the u nick ick burns sufficiently to heat beat the wax hot enough to turn it into gases eases which on mixing with the oxygen in the air produce the fire in the form of light the idle adle wis wi continue to be lighted and to burn bur as long as aa the wax continues hot enough to give oft off the gases or until tho the candle Is entirely consumed any interruption to this process of transforming the wax into gas will result in the extinguishing ot of the light the reason the candle goes out when you blow on the flame Is that he gases which k aich feed the flame at the end of the n trick iafe are blown away the process of turning the hot wax into gas is interrupted end and with the gas supply shut off the flame Is extinguished tin cleveland plain dealer |