2006-07-12 10:05:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
you dirty little git
2006-07-14 08:35:43 · answer #1 · answered by GRUMPY /UK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Now that's really disgusting. Where did you find this guy? And what is he? Like 9 years old or so? Next he'll probably want to build a model of the Statue of Liberty out of fingernail clippings or something like that.
Unfortunately for you, he probably could make a candle out of earwax, although it's going to take him a long time to store up that much wax. And how is he going to keep it from drying out before he's got enough for the candle? Maybe he'll lose interest and forget about it.
Earwax - technically known as cerumen - is, after all, wax, and candles are mostly made of one kind of waxy thing or another, such as paraffin.
Earwax is made up of desquamated keratinocytes (a fancy way of saying dead skin cells that have flaked off the lining of the ear canal), oils and wax secreted by the ceruminous glands in your ear canal. The wax itself is made up of a bunch of things that are hard to spell.
Its function is to trap any small foreign objects that might get in your ear canal and to keep your eardrum from drying out.
Anyway, all that waxy stuff probably would burn as a candle, so I can't help you by telling him it won't work. I hate to think what it might smell like, but I'm afraid he could do it. Sorry."
2006-07-12 10:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by 203_Trek 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes you can but don't forget to put a wick in it which you can make from your nose hair trimings,i keep my earwax in a polythene bag till the end of summer and i usually have around 7 pounds in weight,i make 9 candles from this which saves me a fortune in electricity by not having to use lights in the house
2006-07-12 10:29:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe enough to start a fire and burn out your nose hairs.
2006-07-12 10:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are not serious? Too many ifs.
2006-07-12 10:10:08 · answer #5 · answered by celtic-tides04@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That questions just wrong eww!!!
2006-07-12 10:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by shadow2000 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
imagine the smell of it.. yukky!
2006-07-12 10:14:44 · answer #7 · answered by lonely as a cloud 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-07-12 10:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by c1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
urghh!!!!!!!!
2006-07-12 10:09:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋