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Subject: Why do candles burn quicker in warmer environments?

Date: Sat Feb 10 16:58:22 2001
Posted by Julie and Katie
Grade level: 7-9 School: La Plata High School
City: La Plata State/Province: MD Country: USA
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 981842302.Ch
Message:

We recently did an experiment on this and found that candles burn quicker 
in warmer temperatures, but we would like to know why. We have tried 
asking this question to so many other people on the web, but none would 
take the time to answer, so we're hoping you can tell us. We think this 
may have something to do with the zeroth law of thermodynamics, but we're 
not sure. What we did was put 3 candles inside (70 deg. f) and 3 candles 
in the garage (50 deg. f) and burned them for 6 hours. Again, please 
answer us!!!!! Thank you
sincerely,
katie and julie


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