"Where does a candle go when it burns?"

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similarly, it’s weird how body weight is lost largely through exhaling.

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It combines in the ether until there is sufficient ectoplasm to become reincarnated as a tiger in a far off land.
What bothers me is the fate of the rest of the moles when they make molasses.

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I was thinking more along the lines of where does all that gas go when I fart? In everyone’s nose…

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How much becomes melted, unburned wax?

Anybody that restores old paintings can tell you the reaction products aren’t all gasses. That yellow-brown gonge on old paintings is in large part combustion byproducts. Candles, poorly drawing fires, incense (churches). Indoor air pollution isn’t just a modern phenomenon

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Um, Candle Heaven. Duh.

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Hangin’ out with the “angel’s share” of my bourbon, no doubt.

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It obviously goes to the candle dimension.
Physics doesn’t have to be difficult.

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Quite the opposite. Indoor air quality in pre-electricity houses was terrible. So so much worse than people now would be comfortable with. Fireplaces, candles, gas lamps, poor ventilation, all compound to make a much smokier environment than that time you burned some cookies. Not to mention all the smoke and fumes coming from outside from whatever unregulated coal-fired tannery or whatever was up the road from you.

We’ve worked hard to make the world a cleaner place and we’re healthier for it.

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That was quick. Wha’ hoppin’?

When you sleep, where do your fingers go?

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