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Oil in our Everyday Life

Questions:

  1. Which gave the best quality of light?
  2. Which was the cleanest source of light?
  3. What is the process by which the wax in the candle burns? Does it burn the same way as a match burns or is something slightly different happening?
  4. What is the process by which the fuel in the kerosene lamp burns? What causes the kerosene to rise up through the wick?
  5. Of what chemical element is the black soot that is deposited on the lamp glass composed? (Hint: It is not hydrogen).
  6. What makes the light bulb glow? Is it also burning a fuel?
   

    Last Modified: 2004-12-10