2007-01-10 07:23:58 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It wouldn't burn because of the lack of oxygen.
2007-01-10 07:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by da4boyz 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A candle or anything with a flame needs oxygen to ignite and stay a light, without it the flame would just go out. This is what happens in space.
2007-01-10 07:34:41 · answer #2 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't burn, there's no oxygen. Cover a candle with a clear drinks glass, and eventually the candle will have burnt all the oxygen within the glass and will go out. You've just created the conditions of space.
2007-01-10 07:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you had it lit in an atmosphere of oxygen and moved it around the flame would trail out behind the candle.
If you held it as you would on earth the flame accumulate around the wick and make a hell of a mess with melting wax.
2007-01-11 03:49:08 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did a study on this once. Hoping your meaning in a space ship with oxygen so that it burns. But because of the zero gravity the flame is round and flat looking like you squished it between to pieces of glass.
2007-01-10 07:27:37 · answer #5 · answered by polystyrene_high 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In most cases, it puts itself out.
On Earth, with gravity, hot gases rise, helping fresh oxygen to be drawn to the flame and keep it going.
There is no direction to "rise" is space.
PS: I assume you are taking it inside a spacecraft, in space.
Outside? It would just be in orbit with whoever or whatever brought it up, being frozen on one side and heated by the sun on the other.
Given the data about the wax used, the rate of spin and the distance from the sun, we could calculate how fast (or slow) it might melt or be "corroded" by the solar wind.
Either way, given enough information, its behaviour might be "predictable".
2007-01-10 07:26:49 · answer #6 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The flame would be mostly spherical since there is no gravity.
But that means there would be no convection either, so the flame extinguishes
itself fairly quickly. I think this has been demonstrated on one of the space
shuttle flights.
2007-01-10 07:30:26 · answer #7 · answered by Brianna B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Relative Pressure!..In a Vacuum space that came to rest at -0- inches of vacuum.
2007-01-10 10:21:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A flame in zero G is has a low rounded shape and is all blue
here's a page on the NASA site on the subject with a picture
http://exploration.grc.nasa.gov/combustion/cfm/cfm_index.htm
2007-01-10 07:41:22 · answer #9 · answered by gedg42 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it would go out if you were outside the space craft - fire is burning oxygen, thats why you can put out a small fire by smothering it or if you are on fire you drop and roll. There is no oxygen in space so it would just go out!
2007-01-10 07:28:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think it would light at all. fire needs three things to work - fuel, heat and oxygen. the oxygen is needed for the combustion. space is a vaccuum, so there is no oxygen, therefore there would be no combustion, and the flame wouldn't light.
2007-01-10 07:30:53 · answer #11 · answered by rachel 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋