How Candles Work: VIDEO/DVD, Light a piece of string and the end will smolder, perhaps blaze for a moment, and then go out. If a candle is simply a wick (like a piece of string) surrounded by wax (or some other fuel), how does it continue to burn with a steady flame? While demonstrating how to make candles, Bob Symes explains capillarity and relates this concept to the wick and fuel of the candle.


			How Candles Work

Light a piece of string and the end will smolder, perhaps blaze for a moment, and then go out. If a candle is simply a wick (like a piece of string) surrounded by wax (or some other fuel), how does it continue to burn with a steady flame? While demonstrating how to make candles, Bob Symes explains capillarity and relates this concept to the wick and fuel of the candle. (9 minutes)

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