which color candle will burn out first blue red white light red?

Question

science project and heat

Answer 1

The dyes may affect the combustion rate or the melting point of the wax. You need to test the candles and figure out how to make sure the candles are exposed to comparble conditions (for example, if you had them in a line, the middle candle might be warmer because it has two neighbors. Measuring flame temeperature and wax melting points to high precision is difficult. Statistical methodologies require at least 3 of each color candle and possibly more. I suggest you cast your own candles from one block of wax and one spool of wick in order to control that the variable is the color.

Answer 2

kind of a shot in the dark, but i would say blue. It will be absorbing the light from the candle and pre-heating the wax to a greater extent than the lighter coloured candles, but that's my theory.

Answer 3

I'm guessing red, because it has a higher 'temperature'. But now that I've said that, I think that is only relevent to do with emitted light and not things such as candles.
I know if you put a block of ice in the sun with a square of white cloth on it and a square of black cloth on it, the ice behind the black cloth melts first because it asbsorbs more heat from the sun's rays. That's why I said red initially.
Come back and tell us what happens because i'm all confused now.

Answer 4

the colour wont substitute the burn value, extremely how thick the wick is will result it. A thicker wick will draw up greater molten wax and consume the wax quicker, on the same time as a skinny wick will suck up much less wax, for this reason consume the candle slower.

Answer 5

Color is irrelevant....only the composition of the wax and the size of the candle.

Answer 6

test the theory