How would you go about finding the amount of energy released when lighting a candle?

At school I have to do a thermochemistry challenge and I have no idea what to do! I have to find how much energy is released when lighting a candle. Any suggestions?

if you know the reaction that takes place, you can use bond enthalpies or enthalpies of formation to calculate the energy. but just lighting a candle, I don’t know how you could apply that…

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davidakodes on January 24th, 2010 at 11:59 am

if you know the reaction that takes place, you can use bond enthalpies or enthalpies of formation to calculate the energy. but just lighting a candle, I don’t know how you could apply that…
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