Dark Colored Candle Experiment

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To start off my hypothesis is, if a lighter colored candle has more entrapped air then it will burn quicker because they have less wax. I got this idea from engineering.com and my mom. I thought that this experiment would be fun because if I could prove it was correct then darker color candle would be a better option to buy because they will last longer.
Next, the purpose of this experiment is to show if color affects the amount of time a candle burns. Going back to what I said in the paragraph before. I also did this experiment to tell which color of candle to buy light or dark colors.
The only background research I did was to figure out why lighter colored candles don’t burn as long. Engineering.com gave me a great answer for this. It told

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