SO COLD, CANDLE WOULD NOT BURN.

Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

SO COLD, CANDLE WOULD NOT BURN.

•; One _of, the scientists attached fo ;tlie Peary expedition, tells "us of the -effect of intense cold on a wax can die that he tried to burn. The temperature waa ' • thirty-five degrees below zeo, and its effects were felt not | onl} by the members of the' expedi-1 tion, but even by the candle in que^-, tiontion. It gave forth' no cheery I light such as might hive been pi- | peoted from it in other' circumstances., and when it came to be examined ir was found that the flame h»i\l all it, could dk> to keep .itself warm. /The air was so' cold tliat' the flame I was not, powerful enough to melt the 1' ' wax of the 'candle, 'but' was compelled t> eat its. Wav r down, leading 1 a skeleton r structure of waif in tlie form of a noliqW cylinder. Inside this cylinder'the widk burnedfiwitJf a tongiue ox yellow fire,' and here" and there t^e heat! was' sufficient to perforate the outer covering* and leave ho»les of odd shapes, which turned the'cylinder into a tuifie. of lacelike' wax, 'through the holes in which,- the "light* shone "witli a' strange,""iFerrdrbeauty.