Candle

Candle

1. Stick of wax with a wick in the middle.
2. The basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the System International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin.

Shown is a wax candle.

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