How would you go about finding the amount of energy released when lighting a candle?

January 25, 2010 by homelighting · 1 Comment
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Lauren asked:


At school I have to do a thermochemistry challenge and I have no idea what to do! I have to find how much energy is released when lighting a candle. Any suggestions?

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1. davidakodes says:

   January 26, 2010 at 3:02 pm

   if you know the reaction that takes place, you can use bond enthalpies or enthalpies of formation to calculate the energy. but just lighting a candle, I don’t know how you could apply that… [who] davidakodes

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