If a candle is burnt, the chemical energy is transformed into ________. (2024)

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If a candle is burnt, the chemical energy is transformed into ________.? ›

The energy transforms from chemical energy to heat and light energy. Because when the candle burns a chemical reaction occurs and produces heat and light.

The heat of the flame vaporizes the liquid wax (turns it into a hot gas), and starts to break down the hydrocarbons into molecules of hydrogen and carbon. These vaporized molecules are drawn up into the flame, where they react with oxygen from the air to create heat, light, water vapor (H₂O) and carbon dioxide (CO₂).

Burning of a candle produces heat and light, it requires a chemical reaction to burn a candle. So, there is a transformation of the energy from chemical energy to heat and light energy. Therefore, the energy changes in the burning of a candle as chemical energy is converted to heat and light energy.

The energy transformations that occur when a candle burns are potential energy, to chemical energy, to thermal and light energy. Prior to being burnt, candles hold potential, or stored energy, in their chemical bonds.

The heat given by the flame vaporizes the wax and the hydrocarbon molecules of candle splits into hydrogen and carbon molecules separately. These molecules of hydrogen and carbon reacts with oxygen present in air to form carbon dioxide , water vapor and heat and light.

Burning a candle is a chemical reaction. Burning, also called combustion, is a chemical reaction in which molecules in a substance react with oxygen in the air to produce carbon dioxide and water vapor (steam).

Burning a candle is both physical and chemical change.

This is a physical change. The melted wax vaporizes in the flame and the wax vapours burns and gets converted into carbon dioxide, soot etc. This is a chemical change.

The candle is a chemical substance which is holding chemical energy as it is capable of burning. This chemical energy is the cause of production of light and heat from a burning candle. That is the chemical energy within the candle spread out into its surrounding in the form of thermal energy and light energy.

Fuels contain chemical energy stored in them. When fuels are burnt, the chemical energy changes into heat and light energy.

Heat transfer from the candle flame occurs by the combined processes of conduction, convection and radiation and produces a solid to liquid phase change in the low melting point wax.

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You'll notice that he tallest candle extinguishes first followed by the middle one and the shortest one is the last to go off. Why did this happen? Burning produces carbon dioxide which is heavier than other gases in air. This suggests that the lowest one should get extinguished first.

The process of burning (as opposed to evaporating) is a chemical reaction, a chemical change. The wax molecules are undergoing a chemical change; they are changing into different molecules by reacting with a substance in the air.

When you burn a candle, you release hydrocarbons — chemical compounds consisting of hydrogen and carbon — into the air. In particular, burning candles releases trace quantities of toluene and benzene. We commonly use toluene in paint thinners and adhesives.

If you could look down into the flame, you'd see that oxygen molecules from the air interact with wax molecules and have a chemical reaction. And the products of the reaction, that means the stuff that's produced, is water vapor, carbon dioxide gas, and heat, and light.

The melted wax vaporizes through a combustion reaction, where hydrocarbons interact with oxygen to break into its two components: hydrogen and carbon. This releases light, heat, carbon dioxide and water vapor, and fuels the flame.

Chemical change - The wax near the wick of the candle vapourises and undergoes a chemical change. It produces Carbon soot, Carbon dioxide, water vapours, heat and light.

Burning is a chemical reaction as it results in a chemical compound with distinct chemical properties than the reacting substances. During burning, a substance combines with oxygen and results in a different chemical compound.

Yes, tarnishing of silver metal is a chemical change, as opposed to a physical change. Silver metal reacts with sulfur compounds (including minute amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide in the atmosphere) to form Silver Sulfide.