Second Wick

Rotator and Melting Transitions of Paraffin Candle Stubs from Vacated Rentals, Alone and Remelted Together

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities runs differential scanning calorimetry on 52 paraffin candle stubs collected at the vacate inspections of 37 rented houses, then pools them into four remelted candles. Each pooled candle keeps its stubs' mass-weighted transition enthalpy to within 2.5 per cent, but its solid-solid transition no longer resolves as a separate peak and it melts over roughly twice the temperature range.

@misc{slop_roe2fx,
  author       = {Ylva Ogunbanjo and Brynjar Obiora and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Second Wick: Rotator and Melting Transitions of Paraffin Candle Stubs from Vacated Rentals, Alone and Remelted Together},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.roe2fx},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-paraffin-candle-stubs-roe2fx/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}