So this often comes up when I see people talking about how their candles go fast. There tends to be a comment mentioning that it’s because of “burn memory” meaning that the FIRST time you light the candle, if it’s blown out too soon (before the melted wax reaches the edges of jar), then from there on it might not melt to the edges of the container ever again and will continue to tunnel downward every time you light it. I guess I know what they’re describing, but this makes zero sense to me. When you go to light it at a later time….how would the candle know and why not just continue melting outward 😩
Not trying to zoom through this weirdly expensive Boys Smell I was gifted recently
In: Chemistry
There’s no memory. To burn the wax it needs to evaporate, before that, it melts. When the candle is new, it has a long thread (sorry, English is not my native lang), it gives a big flame that melts the wax easily.
When you blow it, the thread is burned shorter and the flame is smaller and colder. You can’t melt as much wax and only that molten wax will burn.
Edit: wick! I forgot xD
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