This is slow living at its finest. When that happens, I create a new post. Thanks, but the first is just another put-the-cup-on-top-of-the-flame video do people really need videos to explain that? Do you even own a candle snuffer? What I learned from the video is that a candle flame can be put out more simply and neatly that way, and with less drama, than by pinching or kung fu sonic waves.
Neither Duden nor Grimm says anything about Latin charta. How is that supposed to work, semantics-wise? Duden: Ker ze , die; -, -n [mhd. Once, I think. I plopped the cup on top and the flame went out. But I will grant you that if I had more expertise had watched the video there might have been less smoke. I read here from time to time in awe of all you linguistically impressive people because I love words in my dim way but never did I think in this life I would actually know something to the point.
A burning candle with impurities we have very clean candle wax these days will accumulate not only burnt wick that no longer holds the wax to burn but also a glob of burnt junk.
You carefully snip this off with a scissor or use a knife against your thumb or a pair of snuffers. Using the snuffer cut only the very tip top of the wick with the glob leaving part of the black wick burning.
It takes practice to do it well and like poor Catherine Morland you can put your candle out in the process. That would, of course, take the flame with it into the box and put the candle out. You cut, say, halfway up the blackened part, so that the upper portion falls into the box, while the lower portion remains burning below the blade. Patricia, was that accidentally on purpose? In China, in BCE, hemp was mixed with lime and tung oil, and used as caulk for junk ships, classic ancient Chinese sailing vessels.
It is no surprise these hemp vessels, which sailed by the early Middle Ages, are still in wide use. The many faces of hemp. Silly me. Part of what makes an old wick no longer permeable to the lipids is buildup of incompletely oxidized fuel. The presence of a lot of ash in old-fashioned tallow tapers is tied to the fact that tallow burns more slowly and thus coolly, and, dyssynergistically, that it contains far more impurities than beeswax or modern solid paraffin.
There are proteins mixed into the matrix, and even the lipids are not pure hydrocarbons, but are often attached to charged head groups. All these components add nitrogen and sulfur, which slow combustion and contribute to smoke particles. If they could, there would be a lot of smoke obscuring the comparison.
This page, Candle Snuffers and Wick Trimmers, notes as follows:. When complete, wick-trimmers are shaped like a pair of scissors with the base and sides of a box attached to one blade, and a flat cover for the box attached to the other.
It curls over into the hottest part of the flame and burns away. Candle-extinguishers are also known, domed or conical in shape, but are rarely recorded, perhaps because they appear to be late post-medieval or modern in date. There have also been developments in candle-snuffer technology. The photos of candle-snuffers shown on the page in question appear to differ from the little box shown at Wikipedia. Noel Hume , 98 describes what sounds like a very similar type of wick-trimmer from colonial America, and suggests that they were in use by at least According to Omnes, the best methods for putting out a candle are either with a candle snuffer - a bell-shaped metal cone with a handle - or with the lid of the candle.
Many luxury candles come in stunning jars that can be disappointing to get rid of once the candle has finished. Fortunately, you can reuse candle vessels easily, according to Omnes, who explained that first you need to remove the leftover wax.
Omnes' favourite technique for doing so is to put the candle in the freezer overnight, which shrinks the wax, making it easily removable by hand. Once the wax has been removed and the vessel has been cleaned, Omnes suggests using it for anything from a decorative toiletry holder to a planter. Blue Moon Celebrations. Post not marked as liked. Stress Busters During our Social-Distancing.
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