[jbovlaste] Re: Alice in Wonderland 04

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:

On Tuesday 13 July 2010 21:22:01 Kevin Reid wrote:
> That its fuel is wax, or that its fuel is solid and also forms its
> mechanical structure?
>
> Candles can be made of other materials than wax; for example, tallow
> and spermaceti, per dict.org. And one could perhaps burn wax in ways
> which would not qualify for being a candle.

There is a device consisting of a container of a flammable liquid (which could
be wax; there are liquid waxes), with a thing floating on the liquid and a
wick stuck through the thing. Is it a candle?

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Pierre

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