Do white candles burn faster than colored candles?

Project title:
Do white candles burn faster than colored candles?
Middle school
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Hypothesis:

I think the white candle will burn the fastes.

Materials:

-ruler
-stopwatch
-blackmarker
-candles
-matches

The Procedure:

-set candles 4inch apart
-mark line one inch done from the wick of each candle
-lit them at once
-start timeing how long it took them to burn out.
-stopped timening when the mark on the candle was gone

Results:

My results was that the colored canldes burned faster than the white canldes.


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Comment #1378: We did the same experiment and found that the white candle

Submitted by iamchrissy913 on December 1, 2007 - 12:04am
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We did the same experiment and found that the white candle burnt a bit faster than the blue or green one. Where can I find information on why that is?

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