Lavoisier concluded, " la respiration est donc une combustion ," that is, respiratory gas exchange is a combustion, like that of a candle burning.

Historical " bronzes " are highly variable in composition, as most metalworkers probably used whatever scrap was on hand ; the metal of the 12th century English Gloucester Candlestick is bronze containing a mixture of copper, zinc, tin, lead, nickel, iron, antimony, arsenic with an unusually large amount of silver – between 22. 5 % in the base and 5. 76 % in the pan below the candle.

The candela is sometimes still called by the old name candle, such as in foot-candle and the modern definition of candlepower.

The value of the new candle is such that the brightness of the full radiator at the temperature of solidification of platinum is 60 new candles per square centimetre.

In esse ( essence ) is more akin to the light from a candle or the liquid in a vessel.

George Hayward Joyce, SJ, explained that "... where the light of the candle is dependent on the candle's continued existence, not only does a candle produce light in a room in the first instance, but its continued presence is necessary if the illumination is to continue.

A writer in " Time's Telescope " ( 1822 ) states that in Yorkshire at eight o ' clock on Christmas Eve the bells greet " Old Father Christmas " with a merry peal, the children parade the streets with drums, trumpets, bells, ( or in their absence, with the poker and shovel, taken from their humble cottage fire ), the yule candle is lighted, and ; " High on the cheerful fire.

The eight-day festival is marked by the kindling of lights — one on the first night, two on the second, and so on — using a special candle holder called a Chanukkiyah, or a Hanukkah menorah.

He had two large alabaster urns transported from Pergamon and placed on two sides of the nave in the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and a large wax candle dressed in tin which was donated by him to the Rila monastery in Bulgaria is on display in the monastery museum.

One candle is lit on each day of the week-long celebration, in a similar manner as the Hanukiah ( which was modeled after the menora ) during Hanukkah.

" ` Abdu ' l-Bahá also wrote that " her reality is ever shining from the horizon of Christ ," " her face is shining and beaming forth on the horizon of the universe forevermore " and that " her candle is, in the assemblage of the world, lighted till eternity.

Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that " unfortunately, casting Cruz as a tough girl is a hilariously bad ..." and Michael Miller of the Village Voice writing that " as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold a candle to her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow.

Unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away.

This wheel is turned by the heat of a candle or electric light.

Noting that " the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long ", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot — the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them.

* A mass candle vigil is held in Tehran, Iran to mourn the loss of life in the United States.

If a Jew comes, however, and gives a special reward, the custodian of the cave opens unto him a gate of iron, which was constructed by our forefathers, and then he is able to descend below by means of steps, holding a lighted candle in his hand.

His intended fifth victim, 15-year-old Peter Frese, however, escaped by burning through his bindings with a candle that Bartsch had left burning after leaving the shelter.

The most direct influence, however, was J. Waskom Pickett, of whom McGavran was fond of saying ; “ I lit my candle at Pickett ’ s fire ”.

He used them to create the " radiomicrometer ", a device sensitive enough to detect the heat of a single candle from a distance of almost 2 miles.

In 1922, a " landing flare " was an aerial candle attached to a parachute and used for landing an airplane in the dark.

The heat of the match used to light the candle melts and vaporizes a small amount of fuel.

The candle can be made of paraffin ( a byproduct of petroleum refining ), microcrystalline wax, stearin ( now produced almost exclusively from palm waxes though initially manufactured from animal fats ), beeswax ( a byproduct of honey collection ), gel ( a mixture of polymer and mineral oil ), some plant waxes ( generally palm, carnauba, bayberry, or soybean wax ), tallow ( rarely used since the introduction of affordable and cheap wax alternatives ) or spermaceti ( extracted from the head of a Sperm Whale ).

They were used daily when the candle was the main source of lighting a home, before electric lights were available.

Decorative candle holders, especially those shaped as a pedestal, are called candlesticks ; if multiple candle tapers are held, the term candelabrum is also used.

A bobèche is a drip-catching ring, which may also be affixed to a candle holder, or used independently of one.

In the 18th century, spermaceti, oil produced by the sperm whale, was used to produce a superior candle.

The type of candle used in this way is called the Advent candle, although this term is also used to refer to a candle that decorates an Advent wreath.

Turnip lanterns are an old tradition ; since inaugural Halloween festivals in Ireland and Scotland, turnips ( rutabaga ) have been carved out and used as candle lanterns.

The Paschal candle is a large, white candle used at liturgy in the Western Rites of Christianity ( Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, etc .).

A new Paschal candle is blessed and lit every year at Easter, and is used throughout the Paschal season which is during Easter and then throughout the year on special occasions, such as baptisms and funerals.

In some parts of England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries auction by candle was used for the sale of goods and leaseholds.

A type of auction, used in England for selling ships, in which the highest bid laid on the table when a guttering candle expires wins.

The " moving candle " routine previously used in Hold That Ghost ( 1941 ) was utilized again in this film.

Rutabagas were also carved out and used as candle lanterns in Halloween celebrations in Scotland and Ireland.

Hence, once the distance to the SMC was known with greater accuracy, Cepheid variables could be used as a standard candle for measuring the distances to other galaxies.

Hamilton was bent over his desk, drafting a legal paper by the light of a candle.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

`` Git over by the window while there's light, an' I'll put th' candle out.

Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

One candlepower was the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle weighing one sixth of a pound and burning at a rate of 120 grains per hour.

He wired Carnarvon to come, and on 26 November 1922, with Carnarvon, Carnarvon's daughter, and others in attendance, Carter made the " tiny breach in the top left hand corner " of the doorway, and was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place.

alt = A young boy holds a sword in a dungeon lit by a candle

Another Norse tradition involves the myth of Norna-Gest: when the uninvited norns showed up at his birthday celebration — thus increasing the number of guests from ten to thirteen — the norns cursed the infant by magically binding his lifespan to that of a mystic candle they presented to him.

The pavement where the shrine stood is today marked by a lit candle.

The size of the flame and corresponding rate of burning is controlled largely by the candle wick.

A candle wick works by capillary action, drawing (" wicking ") the melted wax or fuel up to the flame.

The SI unit, the candela, was in fact based on an older unit called the candlepower, which represented the luminous intensity emitted by a candle made to particular specifications ( a " standard candle ").

Glass candle holders are sometimes cracked by thermal shock from the candle flame, particularly when the candle burns down to the end.

Progress toward the finished design is checked by successive smoke proofs ; temporary prints made from a thin coating of carbon deposited on the punch surface by a candle flame.