Where do the flames go when you extinguish a candle?

Answer 1

The flame itself "dies". It's energy and material makeup expels into the atmosphere as heat and smoke.

Answer 2

Flames are actually just an optical illusion caused by the energy given off when something burns. Flames are air molecules that are very hot giving off light. When you extinguish a candle, the combustion reaction can no longer continue, so the molecules stop giving off heat and light. Because they no longer give off light, there is no flame.

Answer 3

The flame is extinguished.
In order to exist, a flame (combustion) needs three elements:
Oxygen, heat, and fuel.
Eliminate any of the three elements and a flame cannot sustain itself.
The tools of firefighting are based on this principle.
Fire suppression through removal of oxygen, removal of fuel, or cooling.
Now that you have asked this question in the R&S section, I can tell you that a flame is the result of a Trinity.
Flames are part heat, part fuel, and part oxygen. When the three come together they become evident.
AWESOME correlation between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit !

Answer 4

Fire is nothing but a chemical reaction between oxygen and the object you are burning, not a physical object. It does not violate any of the laws of thermodynamics to claim it just ceases to exist.

Answer 5

They remain burning immortally within their time-space domain: the past.

Answer 6

fire is a chemical reaction.

blowing on it ends the reaction, but the flames don't "go" anywhere.

Answer 7

extinguish ville

Answer 8

they go out...like a light when u flip the switch.

Answer 9

They cease to exist.

Answer 10

out