Waxes wood burning

Describe what is seen when common materials, e.g. wax, wood, natural gas are burned... 

The category of pure hydrocarbons has too many materials to list. Anything that is typically burned to produce heat or energy can be applied as a fuel for an IE mixture. Some high-profile examples would include petroleum products such as diesel fuel and kerosene, plant- and animal-based oils, sugars, glycerin, wax/paraffin, sawdust/wood pulp, Vaseline, shellac, and rosin. 

The prepared maple sawdust is made by cooking with miner s wax, 10 pounds of sawdust to 1 ounce of wax, in a steam-jacketed kettle. The mixture is tamped dry into a paper tube, 7/ inch in external diameter, 1/32 inch wall, and burns at the rate of about 1 inch per minute. The fusee is supplied at its base with a pointed piece of wood or iron for setting it up in the ground, and it burns best when set at an angle of about 45°. In order to insure certain ignition, the top of the charge is covered with a primer or starting fire, loaded while moistened with... 

Anything that will burn up can be called a fuel, and all fuels have certain chemical characteristics in common. Most of them contain carbon, hydrogen or both. They are usually organic hydrocarbons. The word organic means that the substance was once alive. Wood, for example, was once a tree. Coal comes from whole forests that were alive many eons ago. Charcoal also comes from wood, but in a different way. Oil, kerosene, benzine, even wax, all come from petroleum, which in turn comes from small drops of oil in the bodies of long-... 

Experiment 107. — (a) Carbon, (i) Recall or repeat the experiments which showed that carbon is a constituent of wood, cotton, bone, starch, sugar, illuminating gas, candle wax, meat, flour, bread, albumen. (2) Heat 2 or 3 cc. of turpentine in a porcelain or iron dish, and then set fire to it. Does it contain carbon Hold a bottle over the flame long enough to collect any product, and then test the contents for carbon dioxide does the observation verify the previous conclusion (3) Repeat with alcohol. Does it contain carbon Burn a small lump of camphor in a dish or on a block of wood. Does it contain carbon (4) Hold a bottle over a burning kerosene lamp long enough to collect any product, and test as in (2). Does kerosene contain carbon ... 

The stems of wax matches consists of a wick of twisted cotton threads, coated with wax, or more generally with mixtures of stearin, paraffin, and gum dammar or gum opal. These matches burn for a longer time than matches made from wood. 

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