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 #952: You may need a multispectrum

Submitted by The ScienceHound on January 17, 2006 - 7:10pm
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You may need a multispectrum photometer to measure the "amount" of light.

I gather that what you need to measure is the intensity of light that passed through, regardless of the wavelength/frequency.

On the other hand, you may want to actually ascertain what frequencies of light are "permitted" to pass through the contact lense as well. That might be interesting to observe.

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