“Unlocking the Secrets: The Surprising Answers to Your Most Embarrassing Questions Revealed!”
Why Does A Candle Not Create Smoke When Burning But Lots Of Smoke When You Blow It Out?
According to Reddit user u/krystar78, “When the flame is lit…that smoke is being burned. The smoke is vaporized wax. When you blow it out, the wick is still hot enough to vaporize wax, but not ignite it. If you cool the wick like lick your finger or put in water, the wick is no longer hot enough to vaporize wax.”
Science is way too cool. Never mind me, I’ll just be blowing out candles for the next few minutes.
Why Do Certain Foods (Like Vanilla Extract) Smell So Sweet Yet Taste So Bitter Even Though Our Smell And Taste Senses Are So Closely Intertwined?
“Vanilla doesn’t smell sweet. It smells like vanilla. Your brain associates vanilla with sweetness, so you think it smells sweet.
The brain can do weird things like that. Like how you aren’t really capable of feeling wet. You use a bunch of other cues to determine if your hand is wet or dry, and it’s why it’s so hard to tell if laundry is dry after it’s become cold.” —u/kung-fu_hippy
Why Is, No Matter The Color Of The Shampoo, The Foam Always White?
Reddit user u/nokvok let us in on the secret:
“Because the bubbles that make up the foam are so thin that the pigments that make up the color are too thinly spread to matter much. Instead, the light is fractured everywhere by every bubble making it effectively reflecting white light.” When I was a kid, I always wanted to blow purple bubbles. Now I know why purple bubbles just aren’t a thing.
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