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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-7•6 hours agoNo, it isn’t. Didn’t you ever play with a Bunsen burner in school? Only a flame that is burning efficiently with proper combustion will appear blue at the base. A yellow or orange flame will be colder than a blue flame.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-10•edit-25 hours agoYes. It’s burning efficiently with true combustion of the wax. The first thing you learn in chemistry as an 11 year old.
minus-squareddhlinkfedilinkEnglish14•4 hours agoOK so when you said “no, it isn’t” you meant “yes, sometimes it is”?
The bottom of a flame is blue?
No, it isn’t. Didn’t you ever play with a Bunsen burner in school? Only a flame that is burning efficiently with proper combustion will appear blue at the base. A yellow or orange flame will be colder than a blue flame.
Candles often have blue at the base of the flame
Yes. It’s burning efficiently with true combustion of the wax. The first thing you learn in chemistry as an 11 year old.
OK so when you said “no, it isn’t” you meant “yes, sometimes it is”?