• _jonatan_@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If someone had asked me “what percentage of people know how candles work?” I would probably have answered something like “95% of those over the age of 5”. This is very disconcerting. Not that candles are terribly important, but just the lack of reasoning.

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      1 year ago

      Is it really that weird to not fully understand how candles work? They’re rarely used nowadays if you have electricity, and it’s not exactly the most intuitive - I mean wax melts, and reveals more wick, and the wick is the thing you set fire to, so I don’t think it’s that weird to think the wick is burning.

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        1 year ago

        I would assume people goong “ok, so the wick burns but what is the purpose of the wax? Oh it’s the fuel duh”