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Candle Info | TeaLight CandlesHere are ideas for using tea lights, votives, tapers, and pillars — along with Real Simple's picks in each category.
Tea Light Candles
These little lights come in aluminum or plastic cups, so they're ready to burn straight out of the box or bag.
Where to Use: Refill candelabras and sconces with them, or line them up to illuminate a bookshelf or a windowsill. When birthday candles are nowhere to be found, substitute a few tea lights and place them on the dessert plate as a festive alternative.
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Candle Info
Candle Making | What are Candles?A candle is a light source usually consisting of an internal wick which rises through the center of a column of solid fuel. Prior to the mid 19th century, the majority of candles were tallow (a byproduct of beef fat rendering). The fuel now is nearly always some form of wax, with paraffin wax being the most common. Soy and vegetable-based candles are also available, however.
Prior to the candle being ignited, the wick is saturated with the fuel in its solid form. The heat of the match or other flame being used to light the candle first melts and then vaporizes a small amount of the fuel. Once vaporized, the fuel combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to form a flame. This flame then provides sufficient heat to keep the candle burning via a self-sustaining chain of events: the heat of the flame melts the top of the mass of solid fuel, the liquified fuel then moves upward through the wick via capillary action, and the liquified fuel is then vaporized to burn within the candle's flame.
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