Candles + Tricks = Candle Tricks

Some simple and fun tricks you can do at home using candles. Amaze your friends and family! Maybe even win the Nobel prize.

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Trick 1: Candle Extinguisher
Baking Soda and Vinegar create C02. We can capatilize on this and create our own fire extinguisher.

Trick 2: Candle Extinguisher!
Did you know that smoke is actually combustable? You can use it as a make-shift fuse if you ever get into a bind.

Trick 3: Candle Vacuum
If you remove all the oxygen from a container... something has to fill the gap right?


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[michiganwolverine17]

@1mini1music1man1 Lol. You're wrong. If the oxygen were in fact expanding, then it would need some of it to escape the glass. If this happened, then you would see bubbles appearing. However, this doesn't happen, so oxygen must have been depleted.

Furthermore, even if the glass is cooling down, it would never become colder than the temperature it was originally under the same conditions. So that means that, overall, the air would expand. I am 15, but I have known this since I was 11.

[MydogWoofs]

@1mini1music1man1 i dont give a fuck what age you are

[PuzzleSpace]

hacks

[juancho2211]

do you want to be my dad? pleas

[DandiRafanan]

@TheYouraunt Thank you very much. And thank you also for not giving me weird comments.( Bad words)

[1mini1music1man1]

@dray2104 it gets replaced by carbon dioxide dumb fuck

[TheYouraunt]

@DandiRafanan Dude, think a bit, you'll easily come up with the answers (i can't answer to the third question though):

Fire consumes oxygen, when there is no oxygen, the fire can't consume it, and will disappear. If there is nothing inside the glass. you have vaccum, which is occupied by the water. Now, there can't enter any oxygen, unless there is a hole in the glass, or some other way to let oxygen enter, there is water below the glass because of that, where there is water, there isn't oxygen.

[BowmanMaster]

@sandstar102 The oxygen isn't being removed per se, there is still the same mass of molecules inside glass. It's called the law of conservation of mass. The oxygen doesn't disappear, it merely rearranges from O2 -> CO2 when the candle burns.

[kpdon91z]

Can u make a Alcohol on fire plzplzplzplzplz

 :)

[sandstar102]

@1mini1music1man1 i think you are thinking of when a can of hot water is plunged into coldwater. the low pressure of the hot water and to the high pressure of the cold water create a vacume and crush the can. but what you wrote was the other way around. besides like i said, air cant heat that fast. not with a candle anyway

[sandstar102]

@1mini1music1man1 first, what happens when the tempature returns to room tempature? accorfding to your id ea the air would expand again and the w ater would be realised. i have left the exper iment for hours and the water level stayed the same. second hot cold air is denser than hot air. according to you when the candle was buring the tempature would rise. this would cause t he suction. the raipid cooling wo uld cause expansion. third, air cant heat that fasy.

[sandstar102]

@BowmanMaster yes but no matter what the removeal of oxygen will still cause suction.