What is produced when a candle is burned?
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ideally you should get Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor but due to impurities present you will get minute traces of other gases.
Light, heat, and residual carbon.
wax
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Heat.
A gas called carbon dioxide is produced when a candle is burned.This is proved by placing a glass jar over a burning candle.With time the candle stops burning since no oxygen
is present to enhance the burning and also carbon dioxide is produced from the burning candle which doesn't support burning and hence the fire goes off
A candle typically produces about 13 lumens of visible light and 40 watts of heat.
The burning of the fuel takes place in several distinct regions (as evidenced by the various colors that can be seen within the candle's flame). Within the bluer, hotter regions, hydrogen is being separated from the fuel and burned to form water vapor. The brighter, yellower part of the flame is the remaining carbon being oxidized to form carbon dioxide.
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Let me answer this question basically in preliminary terms.
when a candle is burning, combustion is taking place.
A chemical reaction is talking place.
the wax is the material tht is getting burned.
The reaction requires oxygen for combustion and this is aquired from the environment. Oxygen in the environment is being used when u burn a candle. It also consumes the base material.. wax in this case & the thread containing the wax.
The yellow colour in a candle flame is due to the combustion of carbon particles present in the wax and the thread.
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Principally carbon dioxide and water vapour, as the carbon and hydrogen in the wax oxidize. You may get some soot - pure carbon - due to imperfect combustion.
A candle is composed of wax. Wax is a hydrocarbon. When hydrocarbons are oxidized (burned) they form carbon dioxide and water vapor, possibly carbon monoxide, compounds of nitrogen oxide and possibly compounds of sulfur oxide. As well as partially oxidized unburnt hydrocarbon (wax) which is the black soot that you see.
carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water, trace amounts of NOX and residual nitrogen that doesn't burn
to put it another way...a candle is just a solid hydrocarbon fuel. It burns by first melting, then evaporating, then burning with the oxygen in the atmosphere. It must evaporate first because there is no oxygen present in the liquid...when it evaporates, it mixes with the air and thus can react with the surrounding oxygen.
The results are the same...carbon dioxide and water vapor. Pollutants caused by impurities and poor combustion result in the soot.
When lighting a candle, the wax left on the wick melts from the heat of the match and starts the burning process. The resulting heat continues the process. A candle needs a wick to burn. The wick absorbs the liquid wax and allows it to evaporate and burn. If the wick does not continuously soak up liquid wax, it will run out of fuel to evaporate and burn...thus go out. When the candle is extinguished, the last wax absorbed by the wick solidifies and creates the needed wax for re-starting the candle later.
Alrighty then?
Principally CO2, tue product of many combustion reactions, an water
CO2, water
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