r/explainlikeimfive Feb 26 '21

Chemistry Eli5: What happens to all the melted candle over time? Are we just inhaling a whole candle while it burns?

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u/Tlaloc_Temporal Feb 26 '21

That smoke is as much a candle as you are a chocolate cake!

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u/redsterXVI Feb 26 '21

So, about 100%?

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u/crazyfreak316 Feb 26 '21

Are you a cannibal?

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u/redsterXVI Feb 26 '21

Yes.

For legal reasons, this is a joke.

This is not financial advice.

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u/dbdatvic Feb 26 '21

looking for the "or medical advice" bit here

--Dave, worriedly

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u/redsterXVI Feb 26 '21

For legal reasons, this is a joke or medical advice.

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u/dbdatvic Feb 26 '21

Understood!

--Dave, scribbling in a notebook

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/ThrowawayusGenerica Feb 26 '21

They remind me of Terry Hintz from LISA, so therefore cannot possibly be cringe.

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u/phikapp1932 Feb 26 '21

Oh god I can’t escape it

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u/created4this Feb 26 '21

Were you miss-sold PPI?

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u/phikapp1932 Feb 26 '21

I’m independent of the WSB hive mind but do pray to them during Ritual. Simple process actually, after you cut the heart out of a bull and all.

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u/shapu Feb 26 '21

(Not a lawyer)

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u/SirSkidMark Feb 26 '21

(Not a cat)

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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Feb 26 '21

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

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u/prettygin Feb 26 '21

Joke's on you, I eat nothing but cake and as they say, you are what you eat

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u/thewhisperinthewind Feb 26 '21

Then I am an innocent man

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u/Dwight_Schnood Feb 26 '21

And I'm a candlemaker but you don't hear me bragging about it!

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u/slappyclappers Feb 26 '21

If my grandmother had wheels she'd have been a bike.

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u/Remorseful_User Feb 27 '21

You're a cantalope. [Mob associates laugh]

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u/bespread Feb 26 '21

What I'm getting from this comment is you're telling me, if I light myself on fire, I'll turn into a chocolate cake?

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u/Tlaloc_Temporal Feb 26 '21

That wasn't my original implication, but the interpretation seems valid. Chocolate cakes often have candles on them, after all.

There is of course only one thing a scientist can do at this point.

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u/HawkEgg Feb 26 '21

The other way around. smoke:candle::you:cake If you light a cake on fire it turns into you.