The standard orange-yellow flames get monotonous fast when you're running your fireplace during the winter, but flame ...

Without this fuel, the flame will go out. The colors of a flame are caused by bits of wax molecules that didn’t get completely reacted. These glow a certain color when they get to be a certain ...

That explosion heats up those color-producing compounds, causing them to glow. And it turns out, Conkling: The hotter you can get the molecules in your flame the more ignition you're going to get ...