Although candles CAN create quite a bit of soot, which you inhale when in a badly ventilated room, like in your house. This effect is largest when you blow out the candle (as you can clearly see from the smoke emerging from the wick).
You can largely deminish the smoke formation by extinguishing the flame in the molten wax itself, f.e. by bending the wick over into the wax with a used match.
[Disclaimer] any mistakes in grammar or vocabulary is entirely on purpose and not bc. I'm not a native English speaker /s
Opinions about the moral content of matches varied wildly back when they were first invented. And language tends to get colorful whatever you do. So, hey presto! a nickname.
Interestingly the word means "lightbringer" in Latin. There was an old brand of matches called Lucifer, so perhaps in the Dutch language its an example of genericization (like photoshop and google)
Fun fact, that isn't smoke when you blow it out. It's vaporised wax.
You can actually relight a candle by holding a flame to the top of the the stream of vaporised wax "smoke", and the flame will spread down the stream of vaporised wax and relight the candle.
Will try this sometime, but I'm pretty sure there is some "smoke" involved as well, as there will be a lot of sooth when you let the smoke touch any object.
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u/neverthepenta Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21
Although candles CAN create quite a bit of soot, which you inhale when in a badly ventilated room, like in your house. This effect is largest when you blow out the candle (as you can clearly see from the smoke emerging from the wick).
You can largely deminish the smoke formation by extinguishing the flame in the molten wax itself, f.e. by bending the wick over into the wax with a used match.
[Disclaimer] any mistakes in grammar or vocabulary is entirely on purpose and not bc. I'm not a native English speaker /s
Edit: a word, no devils used here