Slow motion candle magic

If you hold a lit match an inch or two over the smoking wick of a recently extinguished candle, the candle will light again. If you record that happening with a high speed camera and then slow it way down, it gives you some clues to how that happens:

Hint: wax is a candle’s fuel and smoke is wax vapor… (via digg)

• science
• slow motion
• video