I know this sounds like a silly question but when a candle bought at Yankee Candle burns away, and the jar is empty, is there a waxy coating on the walls of my room? Would one eventually over the years, be able to notice the waxy coating in the room? Are we breathing in wax while the candles burning? I have a lot of questions just like a five-year-old LOL. Someone please help.
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If you pay close attention to a candle as it burns, you’ll notice the little waves flowing up from the liquid wax pool around the flame.
If you were to burn a wick with no wax, the thing would burn out straight away. The reason a candle is able to burn for so long is because those little waves I mentioned above are wax vapours that act as a gaseous fuel for the flame and so the wick never burns out until the wax runs out.
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