The substance that reacts with the candle wax is oxygen. It comes from the air. Putting the jar over the candle keeps oxygen from outside the jar from getting in. The reaction can only use the oxygen ...

The fire triangle has three sides: fuel, oxygen, and heat. When these three elements combine correctly, ... Once a fuel undergoes off-gassing, it gains the potential to produce a flame.

IT has been shown that an abnormal dissociation obtains in flame gases resulting from the combustion of carbon monoxide–air mixtures1,2. (Such an abnormal dissociation also obtains in ...

Oxygen could still reach a flame in a gravity-free environment if someone blew the gas into the flame or let it "diffuse" in. It is the diffusion process that spreads the scent of a perfume in a ...

THE results obtained by Payman and Wheeler1 for speed of propagation of flame in mixtures of carbon monoxide with oxygen contradict those obtained by Bone2. According to Payman and Wheeler, the ...

A flame in low gravity either wouldn’t exist or would be spherical, according to our readers. And it would be a different colour to flames on Earth too 6 July 2022 ...