Using Vaporized Wax to Light a Candle

If you leave a candle burning for a few minutes, you might notice that the flame burns almost perfectly clean with no smoke. This is wax converted to its vaporized forma and condensing into little droplets in the air as it rises off the wick. The fact that vaporized wax is so flammable is one of those reasons that all those movie scenes with a bubbling cauldron of wax are scary. If you're trying to heat and melt wax for sculpting, i think people are usually advised to do it over a double boiler,. So you have water boiling on the bottom, and you're using the steam from that to heat your boiler with the wax.