Solid carbon particles, soot, form at about 1,000 °C. These are excellent blackbody radiators of colors in the yellow to red spectrum. The typical yellow color of a candle flame or wood fire is therefore produced primarily by the hot soot. The mixing of the fuel and the O2 is the slowest part of the combustion process and, therefore, the rate determining step.
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bachir rouiba wrote:
Olive oil
How about olive oil flame, what makes it? is virgin olive oil flame looks like a non virgin olive oil one?
Sat Jan 26 19:21:21 UTC 2019
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