Without wax gas, the flame won’t burn. Your breath blows some of the wax gas away. Without this fuel, the flame will go out. The colors of a flame are caused by bits of wax molecules that didn’t get ...

A composite false-color image of fire in space ... when you consider that combustion is likely humanity’s oldest chemistry experiment, consisting of just three basic ingredients: oxygen ...

Colors of emission spectra are due to loosely-bound valence electrons being excited in a flame and dropping back down while emitting light. Warning! Once the flame has started, DO NOT add more ...

1. Ask the adult you are working with to light the candle. 2. Watch the candle flame start out small and get bigger. Notice how some of the wax near the wick melts. 3. As the flame burns, the wax from ...

Fundamental knowledge on flame chemistry of ammonia, which is necessary to design and develop a low-exergy-loss combustor without CO2 emission, is investigated.