Blow Out A Candle, Illuminate Your Mind
Ever noticed the incredible beauty of a blown out candle? Well for sure I haven't. Apparently the smoke that wafts from the just-extinguished wick of a candle is not mere ash and soot. It is a nearly-invisible cloud of vaporized droplets of wax.
Indeed, the wax droplets are enough like water that they reflect and refract light to create a very special sight; this effect is call it waxbow =).
Read more about this:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/2013/09/09/waxbows-the-incredible-beauty-of-a-blown-out-candle/
Photo credit: Grover Schrayer
More about his work:
http://www.flickr.com/people/14833125@N02/
Extraordinaire capture... Corina Marinescu and thanks Grover Schrayer
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