Cupcake Candle: Reacting mixtures & combustion

Video clip illustrating the use of a candle as an Everyday Engineering Example in teaching thermodynamics of combustion and reacting mixtures. It was produced as part of the ENGAGE project [see www.engageengineering.org] funded by National Science Foundation in the USA. For more information about this example see www.engineeringexamples.org.
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