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Hank got so tired of the TikTok comments he made a scishow video

@imberrysandy

Жыл бұрын

I dont have tiktok. What kind of comments were mentioned?

@oneminuteofmyday

Жыл бұрын

@@imberrysandy It started with a simple question about where does the wax go when you burn a candle. He made a TikTok video to explain it. And people kept asking “but where does the wax go??” So he made another video to explain it. And people argued and asked “but where does the wax go???” So…you see where this is going. It has been going on for months. Edited to add: His short answer - “You burned it!” has been his _repeated_ response, to the point that I even commented once that it will need to be etched on his tombstone.

@Green0Photon

Жыл бұрын

@@imberrysandy I don't think every TikTok gets crossposted, because I haven't seen the candle stuff (at least I don't remember it), but you can get the general idea of his TikTok by looking at the short on his separate KZread channel. kzread.info

@emilypresleysee

Жыл бұрын

I have been waiting for this episode ever since he posted that on Instagram 🤣

@GroundMemory

Жыл бұрын

I'm pleased that this is the top comment. I'm familiar with Hank's candle wax shenanigans on tiktok and hoped I'd see it mentioned. Edit: WAS the top comment. Lol

No one holds a candle to Hank when it comes to answering this particular sticky wicket. Thanks for waxing eloquent!

@Bildgesmythe

Жыл бұрын

You win!

@saturn9199

Жыл бұрын

I love you, but stop.

@3nertia

Жыл бұрын

Shut up and take my Like and these 1000 internets ...

@NicolasMendoula

Жыл бұрын

Nice. Don't ever stop

@MOE13576

Жыл бұрын

I don't get it

I think the main confusion comes from the fact that solid wax is not flammable, you have to melt and vaporize it before it will burn. Those extra steps between the solid wax and the burning flame mean if you aren't actively thinking about it it's hard to just intuitively see the connection.

@iota-09

Жыл бұрын

also the fact that there will usually will be quite the solid and liquid wax residue left upon buring a candle fully, the question comes up only when you realized it's not as much wax as it was pre-burning

@thedoctor2102

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine that as a rule most if not nearly all fuels (solid or liquid) need to vaporise to be able to combust.

@blak4831

Жыл бұрын

@@thedoctor2102 The property in question here is what's called a fuel's Flash Point, the temperature at which it is able to combust. This isn't always above the fuel's boiling point, though. For fuels with a low flash point, the initial flame is very slow and inefficient because it only has the surface of the fuel to interact with the air, but the heat that flame produces can be enough to start vaporizing fuel. This produces a more efficient, faster-burning and hotter flame that then vaporizes more fuel. What's also neat is that you don't even need to reach a fuel's flash point to burn it; between the minimum temperature for a reaction to occur and the flash point itself, the fuel will burn slowly and inefficiently enough that it either can't vaporize enough fuel to get things going properly, or it can't circulate enough fresh oxygen through to continue the reaction. The result is a flameless charring effect, often seen with incense burners

@thedoctor2102

Жыл бұрын

I know that, obviously. Fuel does not necessarily need to be heated to be vaporised ( or atomised just like what a carburettor does, maximising the available surface area of the fuel to aid combustion. :

@oldsguy354

Жыл бұрын

I still don't understand why this would be a difficult concept for people to understand. Liquid gasoline isn't flammable under normal atmospheric conditions. It vaporizes fairly easily though, so it's difficult to put a match out in a container of gasoline, but if you can get the match flame past the vapors on top of a pool of gasoline without igniting the vapors, the flame would go out in the pool. It's actually easy to extinguish a match flame in a pool of diesel.

Knowing of the TikToks you've had to REPEATEDLY make for this issue, I love that you made this episode :-)

@oneminuteofmyday

Жыл бұрын

I laughed when I saw the video title. I’m surprised he didn’t do this sooner.

@SorteEngel1

Жыл бұрын

@@oneminuteofmyday same! I thought: this?? Again??

@heavymetalbassist5

Жыл бұрын

I just want him to make a tictok on this featuring "ya burned" from Seth Myers

@rainebird

Жыл бұрын

SAME. How many times does he have to explain this? 🤣

@bigbundle3223

Жыл бұрын

"it can be pretty confusing" sci show should let hank say what he really feels on this one

One time when I was in Boy Scouts the question came up, “where does the wax go?” I told my fellow scouts that it burned. They didn’t get it, they started making fun of me for believing such a ridiculous thing. Their assertion. Was that the wax evaporated (not wrong exactly but not the whole story) the wick was what burned, the wax simply slowed it down. They even went so far as to invent a chant of “wax don’t burn!” Which they kept yelling at me. I have never gotten over the injustice😅

@aestherielle1524

Жыл бұрын

I've had a similar thing happen to me like why would you not believe me anyway let us live our life in peace knowing we were the right ones lol

@Teammizera

Жыл бұрын

Just forward this video to any you may have kept in touch with. Lol I had the same from elementary school piers regarding bald eagles here in Alberta because none of them had seen one and assumed they only lived in USA kids are dumb

@filonin2

Жыл бұрын

You should have melted several pounds of wax and covered their tents in it and lit it then asked them how well it burned.

@stevie-ray2020

Жыл бұрын

@@filonin2 Or simply dripped some hot wax from a candle onto their skin, while asking them whether it burned!?!

@MattProvance

Жыл бұрын

@@Teammizera lol like eagles care about national borders 🤣

The same thing happens when you burn fat in your body. You exhale it's byproduct, co2 and water vapor. Absolutely blew my mind when I learned that (probably from SciShow haha).

@trishapellis

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the idea that "burning calories" is called that because it's literally the same chemical process as burning something with fire blew my mind.

@damagecontrol7

Жыл бұрын

its

@nonec384

Жыл бұрын

it gets out in your poop ...

@chiragadwani1875

Жыл бұрын

There was a video from veritasium about it actually and this reminded me of that fact from that video too. I was like you know what else takes in oxygen and gives out CO2 and loses weight as a result? Me! (JK I have determined that it is impossible for me to lose weight, I can only gain :P)

@micahphilson

Жыл бұрын

@@HerbaMachina well, less efficient by rate, but far more efficient by amount of energy turned into useful work. In a certain sense sense, it's far more efficient to just set fire to a vat of oil than digest it, haha.

while I knew the wax was the fuel, I did not know the smoke was the wax vapor. So cool, I still learned something new.

@limiv5272

Жыл бұрын

It's the same with all other fuels containing multiple carbon atoms, the soot is the result of some of it not burning completely

Possible idea for a follow-up video: I make candles using soy wa mainly, sometimes beeswax. I get a LOT of questions about whether it's healthier than paraffin (petroleum-derived) wax, but I also have some people who are convinced beeswax actually cleans the air. I don't think physics works like that, but it'd be a neat research topic!

@rin_okami

Жыл бұрын

I dunno about healthier, but I do prefer soy wax melts only because the wax is a lot softer than paraffin and that makes it a lot easier to clean up.

@Dominus_Potatus

Жыл бұрын

... no matter what, in the end, it will be carbon dioxide + H20 It won't clean the air, it might be cleaner

@twocvbloke

Жыл бұрын

Whichever wax is used, it's a hydrocarbon at its most basic level, so when it burns, as described in the video, it turns into carbon dioxide and water, plus other "stuff" that is in the wax (including any smellies or just general contaminants the wax comes with), so there's no cleaning, plus soy wax canldes smell like farts to me, so I can't stand them... :P

@nedludd7622

Жыл бұрын

What do vegans prefer?

@NovaGirl8

Жыл бұрын

@@nedludd7622 probably soy since beeswax is a product of bees

Pretty sure we all knew where the wax goes, we just like to listen to Hank explaining stuff. ☺️

@flopsnail4750

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@bhami

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this was one of those rare, "well duh!" videos.

@anyascelticcreations

Жыл бұрын

That, and to confirm that we're smart. 🤣

@CorbiniteVids

Жыл бұрын

I did know before this video butlonger aho i didn't. I just thought the wick was burning and the candle helped regulate the speed or something. Cause if you try to just burn wax as it is it doesn't work, so the truth is kind of counterintuitive. I like to think that this video was mind-blowing to someone :)

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

The freaky thing about liquid-fuel rockets is that the combustion happens well below the engine nozzles. The rocket literally stands atop the furious explosion beneath its engines.

So, I'm assuming next up is a "Don't eat grass!" video. 😄 Thanks Hank!

@dri1811ya

Жыл бұрын

" Why not? Goats do all the time. "

Between oil lamps and wax candles were what was called "tallow" candles, made from rendered animal fat; in the 18th century, wax candles became a way to distinguish the classes, because those who were wealthy enough to purchase wax candles did so. Tallow candles gave off an acrid smoke, while wax didn't. Jane Austen even makes mention of this is "Emma", saying that those who moved in the "first circle" even used wax candles in the schoolroom (private tutoring).

I eat it, I eat all the wax

@a_diamond

Жыл бұрын

😂

Also, back in the days one had to trim the wick every so often to prevent the flame from becoming to big and starting to soot. Nowadays however, the wick is engineered and knitted in such a way, that the very tip of it always points out of the side of the flame and thus shortens itself. The glowy bit at the end of the wick is where the wick is slowly eaten away by the flame, making the frequent trimming obsolete.

@rin_etoware_2989

Жыл бұрын

trimming wicks is still recommended-the wick curving maintains the wick's height, which also maintains the flame height. people should still trim their wicks because if it's too long it can start to curve excessively, wasting fuel and messing up the pool of wax at the bottom of the flame (causing that stereotypical mess of drippage, specially for narrow candles)

I assume why it seems weird to most of us is down to solid fuels not being as commonly visible outside of fires, We grow up surrounded by liquid fuels that we use for anything from cars to arson but the only real solid fuels we see often are logs in fire places and wax in candles, Candle wax being the stranger of the two common ones since in use it exists in 3 different states of matter at different places on said candle.

@setcheck67

Жыл бұрын

Mmmm I think to anyone thats seen a grease fire it's not hard to believe that they can be a solid. Although it is quite the morbid thought to think of that congealed glob of fat in your bacon is the same stuff forming inside of your extremities(especially when it's cold outside).

@woulg

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah "from cars to arson", ah yes, the things we all do normally. It's what we're used to!

i very much appreciate the in-depth explanation about how we burn the wax and that candles don’t just “disappear” now make a whole video on why humans shouldn’t eat grass

I'm so proud of you, Hank, for keeping your cool during this episode. Beautifully done.

“Which is what I’ll be doing” comes from a place of pain 💀💀💀 Imagine how frustrated he must’ve ended up getting in order to make a whole ass scishow episode about this lmaooo

I knew of this trick with re-lighting a blown out candle, but could never figure out how this worked. Makes total sense. I shall try this out by blowing out a candle and trying to condense the wax back on a spoon.

@TheRealSkeletor

Жыл бұрын

Try cooling the spoon first (in a freezer, etc). Should accelerate the process!

Linode: Hey Hank, mind if we pay you for some content answering an often asked science question? Hank: I HAVE JUST THE QUESTION!

Seeing Hank's frustration on TikTok about this topic was absolutely priceless. I'm glad he explained it more clearly here :)

cool part is that the trees and other plants actually build themselves out of that air. The carbon from the 'dioxide is used to build those cell walls that we later burn for heat.

@NicolasMendoula

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the nitrates found in the soils (or maybe air)

@limiv5272

Жыл бұрын

@@NicolasMendoula I'd point out the water first, I'm sure the plant contains more of that

@limiv5272

Жыл бұрын

Burn for heat, wear, sit on...

Poor Hank. Maybe they'll stop asking, now. XD

@radfordra

Жыл бұрын

Doubt it

@RalphInRalphWorld

Жыл бұрын

It's under the sauce!

@B00s3

Жыл бұрын

Same Thought. At least he can just send them here now.

@3possumsinatrenchcoat

Жыл бұрын

bold of you to assume any of them would watch a video longer than 20 seconds

@B00s3

Жыл бұрын

@@3possumsinatrenchcoat Ayy Ooh! Shots fired. I love it.

I've been on TikTok... this is Hank's legacy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Finally , one earths greatest questions, answered

When I got the notification for this I just laughed, the amount of times Hank's had this one on tiktok I'm not surprised it made it here. Now how long until he does one about not eating grass?

@hardrays

Жыл бұрын

i shouldnt eat grass?

lmfaoooo i hear the annoyance in Hank's voice

Not as funny as when you did it on Tik-Tok. "You burned it Brittany, you burned it!!!" Lol. That one still cracks me up.

@oneminuteofmyday

Жыл бұрын

Same. lol

@massimookissed1023

Жыл бұрын

Hey, leave Brittany alone.

I love it when this channel’s hosts wax scientific.

I always thought the wax was just a convenient filler for the wick to burn controllably, never knew it was the actual fuel

Call me old-fashioned but I’ve always loved candles and oil lamps. Candles aren’t the only confusing flammable materials I know of. Many normally non-flammable solids and liquids will combust or even explode violently in dry, powdered form. This includes plant grains, including ground corn and wheat, dairy products, including dried milk protein, plant flowers and fruit, including cotton, oranges and olives (dynamite and smokeless powder is made with pure cotton treated with nitric and sulfuric acids), plant sugar (sugar is a main ingredient in some model rocket engines), various metals, including iron, copper, aluminum, magnesium, zinc, cerium, etc.. Some examples: Corn chips are quite flammable and can be used a survival candle. There have been many powerful documented grain silo explosions caused by plant grain dust being ignited by the static electricity produced by the flowing grain. Powdered coffee creamer is often used in the movie SFX industry as a brilliant low explosive that shows up wonderfully on screen. Solid iron and solid aluminum-when powdered and mixed together-is known as ‘thermite’ and once ignited can melt through an engine block at over 2500°C (4500°F). The real mystery is: “Are there enough fire extinguishers in my kitchen?”.

@icarusbinns3156

Жыл бұрын

Here’s another confusing fuel: coal Not confusing, you say? Well! Here’s the weird: if it gets wet or damp while being transported, and then is stored with that bit of wet, it has a nasty habit of randomly bursting into… well, not flame, per say… but it gets to smoldering. THAT is how there was an active fire while the doomed RMS Titanic was going down. She had damp coal that decided to just burn. Before it went in the boiler.

@DanielGBenesScienceShows

Жыл бұрын

@@icarusbinns3156 Yeah, exothermic reactions can throw you a curve ball. I get the same jitters when I’m working with certain wood treatments, like tung oil. I’ve never had a rag spontaneously catch fire, but knowing it’s possible, I soak them in water in a metal can.

@davidmcgill1000

Жыл бұрын

@@DanielGBenesScienceShows Also why you should never add a lot of sulfuric acid to water at once. The result is not something you'd expect without knowing about it.

@DanielGBenesScienceShows

Жыл бұрын

@@davidmcgill1000 Absolutely!

@AaronOfMpls

Жыл бұрын

Regarding dust explosions: Here in the Mill City (Minneapolis, Minnesota, US), we have a big monument in Lakewood Cemetery to a flour mill explosion. The Washburn A Mill -- the largest flour mill in the world at the time -- blew up in 1878 when sparks from two dry millstones ignited a bunch of flour dust. The explosion destroyed the mill; stones from its walls landed more than half a mile away. The fire also spread to neighboring mills, which were built side-by-side along a waterpower canal under the street. And the intense heat meant firefighters couldn't get very close to fight it -- especially with 1870s pumps and hoses and firefighting gear. In total, 18 people were killed in the disaster. The mill was rebuilt bigger and better by 1880, and the Washburn company that owned it eventually grew into General Mills. But changes in technology made bigger mills practical in other places without waterpower (like Buffalo NY), and almost all of the Mill District had shut down by 1970. The then-abandoned A Mill itself was nearly destroyed by another fire in 1991, but its ruins were stabilized. The Mill City Museum opened inside it in 2003. The cemetery monument was built in 1885.

I love Hank's evident delight when doing the extremely strained sponsor segue.

I'm living in a age where people are confused about candle wax, that indeed is really novel to think about.

That linode cloud transition was smooth as a beeswax candle 🕯🤌🏻

one of my favorite things from middle school is that my science teacher did some kind of experiment where everyone in class had a candle and lit it on fire for some reason that I don't remember. The part I remember is that for weeks afterwards his floor would be extremely slick like it had just been waxed, which in a way it had. I think he did it on purpose just to watch everyone slide around and laugh at the awkward kids.

That's one smooth transition to the sponsor xD

This was an exceptionally well presented episode even by the standards of this channel. WELL DONE!

It's surprising how many people think that the wax isn't the fuel at all. I have found a number of people believe it's actually meant to slow down the rate that the wick burns, because they think the wick itself is extremely flammable. It's actually pretty hard to burn an unwaxed or unoiled wick. Apparently their reason for thinking so is that when you burn a taper candle, it just melts and rolls off the sides. Obviously that only accounts for the part of it that manages to escape unburned, and if you tried to melt it into a new candle you'd see that not nearly as much is left.

@filonin2

Жыл бұрын

We really need to get the lead levels down in our water. It is a national crisis, clearly.

Love that you made a video on this, saw your struggle to explain it on tiktok

I am very happy hank is the voice for this one

Thank you Hank and SciShow team! I just had a lovely morning sharing this knowledge with my 2 and 4 year olds (and wife). They were captivated by the relighting candle trick. Well done video and thanks again!

Hank has said this so many times on tiktok and I love he’s just devoted an entire episode to it.

I love that you got so tired of answering this on tiktok and just gave up and made a whole episode about it

I love that hank got so tired of getting asked to explain again on tiktok that he made it into a scishow video

I saw your tik-tok some weeks ago and it's hilarious that you decided to make a whole video because of it.

I was about to not click on this video because wax turning into CO2 and H2O was pretty obvious to me, but I figured that with the video being ~5 minutes there'd surely be more to the video than just "it goes into the air". Ended up learning about the role of the wick, as well as what the smoke actually is. Glad to have clicked.

I actually did know, the quick pulls the melted wax. But hank always does such a great job explaining our particular questions

I love the fact that I've seen the answer on TikTok like 40 times and Hank being frustrated, and then scishow makes the video

the fact that hank had to have them make this freakin video 🤣🤣

I love how TT forces Hank to do a full episode on this. 😂

Oh what a smooth segue!! Nicely done Hank!

F what anyone has to say. This is your channel and you can review what you want. We love your commentary.

I love how you were asked this so much on TikTok you just made a SC show of it

I've been wondering about this recently, thanks 😊

Hank should do a video on just the word why and how you can say why to everything

@ChemEDan

Жыл бұрын

Why

@massimookissed1023

Жыл бұрын

What comes before *X* ?

@General12th

Жыл бұрын

@@massimookissed1023 W?

@massimookissed1023

Жыл бұрын

@@General12th yes W, not why. ;)

@ChemEDan

Жыл бұрын

@@massimookissed1023 Se

poor Hank, still answering this one (1) question

Such an obvious but neat explanation. I love candles and lamps, fire good.

thanks! I always wanted to know this but I was too lazy to look it up, saw the notification and was like alright time to learn

I have asked this question so many times. I know it burns, but into what. I just for some reason never looked it up when I thought of it. Thanks Hank!

The segue to advert was perfect.

Loved the video, but also, damn! What a sick transition to the sponsor!

Weird that most candles I burnt in the past I knew exactly when the wax went. It went all over the place below the candle like all over the bottle, candle holder, or all over the floor one time. 🤣 Seems like only some candles wax went into the air and others went deep into the carpet fibers. 😂🤣😂🤣

loving the blue/darker background

I spent 4 years working at a candle factory, then did my own home business making candles for 15 years. This is accurate to a flame.

Great episode!

Hank got so tired of this question he turned it into a SciShow video

Hank finally snapped

I clicked on this video because I genuinely didn't know. I knew it was because the was was being combusted, but I didn't understand how since the liquid was doesn't catch on fire. The liquid being drawn up by the wick makes perfect sense

@General12th

Жыл бұрын

If you read through the comments, there are quite a few people who feel disappointed -- even angry -- at you for not having figured this out already. The next question Hank should answer is why those people are so upset.

That transition was as smooth as a well waxed floor.

LOL - Hank's good humor lights up my life!

as a candle maker, thank you for teaching me the science of my trade 😅🙏

It is genuinely terrifying that this video needs to exist on a channel meant for adults.

@kaiwannagoback5712

Жыл бұрын

It isn't likely taught explicitly in school, and most of what most people learn in school, was memorized for a test, thereafter forgotten, and not internalized well or synthesized into useful knowledge that connects with other useful knowledge. Sadly. I was shocked to find this the general case, because I halfway flunked my way through school due to being determined to internalize what I learned and connect it with existing knowledge, and still understand that which I learned, but found out that that is unusual, and that of the people I know in real life, almost none have any functional or intuitive understanding of any of the math or sciences they studied in school. Makes me wonder what the point of it was, going there for 12 years, if nothing stuck.

Great question, I've been wondering.

So excited to hear you to explain this again 🤣

Great explanation!

Thanks for the information, Blessed Be.

In a room with dimmed lights and very still air, I observed a candle flame stretching almost a metre high. The soot was glowing orange in a long, thin stream above the elongated flame.

@hardrays

Жыл бұрын

too much co2. ventilate and vacate

@RideAcrossTheRiver

Жыл бұрын

@@hardrays I was duct taped to a wall

(2:07) How can you say, "the wick is not what's burning. What's burning is the oil that's being drawn up into the wick."? I understand the point you are trying to make but both the wick AND the oil are burning. Otherwise, where does the candle wick go? ;)

It says something about this channel when I'm still compelled to click to watch the video even when I already well know the answer to the question in the title.

my favorite question is where the a plant get the material that makes the plant... the air

“I know that’s what I’ll be doing” he said, not angry at all

I love… that he got sick enough of this question on TikTok that he was like “that’s it… making a whole video”

wonderful! scishow just answer a question that i would never ask nor thought of

YOU MADE A FULL VIDEO LOVE YOU HANK - from tiktok

You know, Hank, this isn't going to stop anyone from asking you about this on TikTok every other month.

I really really appreciated the short answer 😅

Brilliant! I'm glad you've covered this. I have "The Physics and Chemistry of Color: The Fifteen Causes of Color" by Kurt Nassau and he explained how wax candles work, too!

That smoke trick is how I learned as a teenager to never fry oil on full blast with the lid on. The moment I removed the lid... set fire to the pan and almost the whole kitchen.

Technology Connections explores old lamp design much more in depth

This is not what I was looking for today, but once asked, I needed to know where the candle wax goes.

Thanks!

I think Hank should be invited to more parties from now on!

Following Faraday's footsteps? I love his "Natural history of a candle".

I never really thought about it tbh, but now I know.

Gotta say, this was one of the things, I never really wondered about.

4:10 I was so sure you were gonna say "It vanishes into thin air"

If it melts, we should have a infinite candle glitch

@oxybrightdark8765

Жыл бұрын

it melts, evaporates and burns.

He's had enough of answering people on tiktok... he'll just link them to this video from now on 😂 YOU BURNED IT, BRITTNEY

Hank is so sick and tired of this question he had to make a SciShow video about it 💀💀💀

Ok so what I'm hearing is that Shrek making candles from his ears is science accurate. Cool