What are the most fascinating science facts?

Mangaljit Singh, PhD researcher in Photonics. Quality answers guaranteed.

Updated Aug 30 · Upvoted by Dimosthenis E. Gkotsis, Ph.D Physics, National Kapodistrian University of Athens (2019)

You can light a candle without touching its head with the flame.

Yes. You read it right. All you need to do is take a lighted candle.

Now simply blow the candle. You will see the smoke coming out of the candle head.

Now take a lighted matchstick and bring it close to the smoke as shown below:

And now you will see the magic.

The candle gets lit. That was quite impressive.

The explanation is pretty simple.

When you blow the candle, the smoke coming out of the candle head contains vaporized wax. And this vaporized wax acts as a fuel to burn the candle.

Now go back and try this out if you were not already aware of this trick.

:)

Lighting a Candle Without Touching it.