Depends, if it is on a candle, it usually grows up or left or right.
A candle is able to burn in the air due to the presence of oxygen. The wick of the candle (usually made up of braided cotton) "draws" the wax up to the flame, providing the flame with combustible material to continue burning.
When the candle flame is burning, the flame heats the wax which melts it, the wick pulls in the liquid wax into the flame as fuel (this is why the wick doesn't just burn away). Think of a napkin soaking up water. The wax then burns in the flame and "disappears".
The flame goes up from a candle due to the buoyancy effects of the hot gases in the flame. Interestingly when experiments are run in microgravity (like on the ISS), a flame will just be spherical with no particular orientation since there is not enough gravity to make any buoyancy manifest.
The function of the wax is to fuel the flame, it works with the air in a room or wherever the candle is and make the flame burn brighter, releasing the Good or bad- smell of the wax. The wick is made up of braided cord or string and it holds the flame, the tip of the string curls down toward the candle and that makes the flame burn at full capacity, the whole function, basically of the candle is to make the flame burn strong and bright.
It means something will stand up to flame for a time.
lets take the candle as an example: the flame of the candle heats the surrounding air thus the cold air bushes the hot air up and takes its place because the cold air is much denser than the hot air, due to this motion the flame itself goes up with the hot air and so on.
the one with the thickest wick.The flame from the candle melts the fuel (beeswax, tallow, cocoa butter, paraffin, or other hard waxy fat substance) which is then drawn up the candle wick and fed to the flame. The thicker the wick, the more fuel can be fed to the flame, making the flame bigger and hotter and using up the candle faster.
The burning flame on a candle needs three things to continue burning: 1) fuel, which it gets from the wick 2) heat, which comes from lighting the candle 3) oxygen Without any one or more of these three things, the candle will no longer continue to burn. In the case where a candle is covered with a glass, the candle quickly uses up the oxygen inside the glass. once all of the oxygen is gone, the flame will burn out.
When the candle flame is covered with a flask, it creates a closed system where the oxygen supply is limited. The flame requires oxygen to sustain combustion, so when the available oxygen is used up, the flame goes out. The process is known as oxygen depletion, and it happens when the flammable material (wax) fails to receive sufficient oxygen to continue burning.
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Heat from the flame melts the wax in the wick. As the melted wax vapourises, and is burnt, it is replaced by more melted wax travelling up the wick by capilliary action. As long as the flame remains, the process simply continues.