He lit up a wax candle.

他点燃了一支蜡烛。

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The technique seem to be good for materials like wax, see below for some photos of a wax candle for comparison.

技术似乎是好材料，如蜡、见下部分的蜡烛照片进行对比。

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An obsolete unit of luminous intensity, originally defined in terms of a wax candle with standard composition and equal to1.02 candelas.

国际烛光一种旧式亮度单位，原来以一根有标准构成的蜡烛来定义，等于1。02坎德拉。

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Using a menu of impromptu, homemade mediums (cooking oil, tobacco juice, candle wax), he worked in a cramped, one-room studio piled high "with every kind of object old newspapers, painting materials, soiled cloths, food, unwashed dishes, ashes, " according to Lloyd Goodrich, the artist's champion in later decades.

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With a torch, I could see candle wax on the small pillars close to the centre of the tomb.

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But Eli's selling more kind of random bric-a-brac, like corncobs and candle wax.

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