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Attended a party & spotted this gorgeous candle wax still-life! Someone really enjoys candle light everything, lol, very creative =)
Autumn seasonal fruits & one candle. An attempt to use the light as the painters did in the past.
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A candle is wax with an ignitable wick embedded that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance. It can also be used to provide heat, or as a method of keeping time.
A candle manufacturer is traditionally known as a chandler. Various devices have been invented to hold candles, from simple tabletop candle holders to elaborate chandeliers.
For a candle to burn, a heat source (commonly a naked flame) is used to light the candle's wick, which melts and vaporizes a small amount of fuel (the wax). Once vaporized, the fuel combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to ignite and form a constant flame. This flame provides sufficient heat to keep the candle burning via a self-sustaining chain of events: the heat of the flame melts the top of the mass of solid fuel; the liquefied fuel then moves upward through the wick via capillary action; the liquefied fuel finally vaporizes to burn within the candle's flame.
As the mass of solid fuel is melted and consumed, the candle becomes shorter. Portions of the wick that are not emitting vaporized fuel are consumed in the flame. The incineration of the wick limits the exposed length of the wick, thus maintaining a constant burning temperature and rate of fuel consumption. Some wicks require regular trimming with scissors to promote slower, steady burning, and also to prevent smoking. In early times, the wick needed to be trimmed quite frequently. Special candle-scissors, referred to as "snuffers" were produced for this purpose in the 20th century and were often combined with an extinguisher. In modern candles, the wick is constructed so that it curves over as it burns. This ensures that the end of the wick gets oxygen and is then consumed by fire—a self-trimming wick.
Chester Cheshire 2015
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Either I missed the point of all of the questions or it was a really, really easy exam. Likelihood is I have still not gotten a high enough grade, but hey. If all else fails I will drive taxis for a living. Or maybe it was just because I was in a room completely on my own with no distractions at all, and I have the practice of an extra year. I do not know. But I do know that my lungs ache so much, and I am simply so tired.
Did you know that Jeremy Bentham had two walking sticks called Dapple and Dobbin; a “sacred teapot” named Dickey and occasionally shared his bed with a pet pig and a cat named The Reverend John Langhorne? I love philosophers sometimes.