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The formation of carbon black in a candle flame was the subject of a series of lectures in the 1860s by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution in London (23). Faraday described the nature of the diffusion flame, the products of combustion, the decomposition of the paraffin wax to form hydrogen and carbon, the luminosity of the flame because of incandescent carbon particles, and the destmctive oxidation of the carbon by the air surrounding the flame. Since Faraday s time, many theories have been proposed to account for carbon formation in a diffusion flame, but controversy still exists regarding the mechanism (24). 

Lihou and Maund (1982) used soap bubbles filled with flammable gas which were blown on the bottom of a fireball chamber to form fireballs. A hemispherical bubble was formed on a wire mesh 200 mm above the base of the measuring chamber in order to permit study of elevated sources. The gas bubble was ignited by direct contact with a candle flame, and the combustion process was filmed at a speed of 64 frames per second. The fireball s color temperature was measured. 

Diffusion Flame. Wlien the fuel and oxidizer are initially unmixed and then mix in a thin region where the flame is located, the flame is called a diffusion flame (Figure 2). The word diffusion is used to describe the flame because the fuel and oxidizer are mixed on the molecular level by the random thermal motion of the molecules. An example of a diffusion flame is a candle flame or flares at an oil refinei y. 

The candle flame gives off heat, melting the candle wax. Wax melting is a phase change from solid to liquid and an endothermic reaction. 

Why does the candle flame smoke more in a breeze ... 

Give several ways by which the rate of combustion in a candle flame might be increased. State why the rate would be increased. 

In the nineteenth century, Humphry Davy (1778-1829) speculated that the luminosity of flames is caused by fhe production and ignition of solid particles of carbon as a resulf of the decomposition of a part of the gas. Jons Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848) is said to be the first to describe an ordinary candle flame as consisting of four disfincf zones. Davy s protege, Michael Faraday [9] (1791-1867) gave his Christmas lectures and accom-pan3ung demonstrations to a juvenile audience on "The Chemical History of a Candle" in 1848 and 1860. Around the turn of the century, modem combustion science was established based on the increased understanding of chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics. 

In the absence of gravity, the properties of a candle flame change dramatically [36,39,41]. Figure 8.1.3 shows a candle flame on the Mir space station, in which the melt layer was hemispherical and much thicker than that in normal gravity, and the flame was smaller, spherical, and less sooty, uncovering the blue flame zone. There was significant circulation in the liquid phase (as a result of surface-tension-driven flow caused... 

Insight into the behavior of candle flames in normal and low gravify can be obfained from experimenfs and... 

Smith, S.R. and Gordon, A.S., Precombustion reactions in hydrocarbon diffusion flames The paraffin candle flame, /. Chem. Phys., 22, 1150,1954. 

Allan, K.M., Kaminski, J.R., Bertrand, J.C., Head, J., and Sunderland, P.B., Laminar smoke points of candle flames, presented at 5th US Combustion Meeting of the Combustion Institute, Paper No. D32, San Diego, CA, March 25-28,2007. 

C06-0042. In each of the following processes, energy is transformed from one type to another. Identify what type of energy is consumed and what type of energy is produced, (a) Sunlight heats the roof of a house, (b) A baseball pitcher throws a fastball, (c) Wax bums in a candle flame. 

The candle flame buds and brightens as I write to Elysabeth. 

Hold a dish over a candle flame, and you will see a black deposit begin to form. While you probably know that this deposit is carbon, you may never have thought it was very important. But carbon is such an important element that a whole major field of chemistry, organic chemistry, is devoted to the study of its compounds. A compound, as we know, is a new substance formed by the union of two or more elements. 

Figure 1.1 Two species of candle flame - dead or alive The flame on the left is on Earth and the flame on the right is burning under zero gravity. (A colour reproduction of this figure can be seen in the colour section). (Reproduced from photos by courtesy of NASA)...

For laminar conditions of slow flow, as in candle flames, the heat transfer between a fluid and a surface is predominately conductive. In general, conduction always prevails, but in the unsteadiness of turbulent flow, the time-averaged conductive heat flux between a fluid and a stationary surface is called convection. Convection depends on the flow field that is responsible for the fluid temperature gradient near the surface. This dependence is contained in the convection heat transfer coefficient hc defined by... 

Recall that we are assuming faem "C faff (°r fax, if turbulent flow). Anyone who has carefully observed a laminar diffusion flame - preferably one with little soot, e.g. burning a small amount of alcohol, say, in a whiskey glass of Sambucca - can perceive of a thin flame (sheet) of blue incandescence from CH radicals or some yellow from heated soot in the reaction zone. As in the premixed flame (laminar deflagration), this flame is of the order of 1 mm in thickness. A quenched candle flame produced by the insertion of a metal screen would also reveal this thin yellow (soot) luminous cup-shaped sheet of flame. Although wind or turbulence would distort and convolute this flame sheet, locally its structure would be preserved provided that faem fax. As a consequence of the fast chemical kinetics time, we can idealize the flame sheet as an infinitessimal sheet. The reaction then occurs at y = yf in our one dimensional model. 

The light emitted by a candle originates from hot particles of soot in the flame these soot particles strongly absorb and thence re-emit it as visible light. By contrast, the gas flame of a kitchen oven is paler, despite being hotter than a candle flame, and does not emit much light owing to an absence of soot. 

Quickly position the foil cylinder at approximately 45° up and away from the top of the candle flame. 

Priestley believed that all materials contained an element called phlogiston , which was given off when they burned. Air in which things had been burned became less able to support combustion because it was then saturated with phlogiston . Accordingly, Priestley called his gas, in which a candle flame burned brightly, dephlogisticated air . 

Dr. Meigs had heated a specimen of vermiculite in a candle flame and had shown del Rio the worm-like filaments which shoot out from it. Under the blowpipe, the Mexican scientist obtained from it oblique prisms nearly an inch long, which were also crooked and worm-like. Vermiculite is a hydrous silicate generally produced by alteration of mica. 

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