EricofAZ Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 Anyone know how to calculate a final melt point for a product?Lets say I use (Farenheit):16 oz 128 MP wax16 oz 124 MP wax3 oz ? FO (probably melts at 0 F)5 drops liquid dye (probably 0 F MP)Should I consider the dye deminimus? I think so.So in this scenario:16x128=204816x126=20163 x 0= 02048+2016+0=40584058/35(ounces)= MP of 115.94I wish I knew the actual MP of FO. I would consider it the same as the freeze point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricofAZ Posted April 27, 2011 Author Share Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) Oh, and how to calculate vybar? seems a little scoop of that tends to really change how a wick works and I think it raises the MP pretty high in ways that are not proportionate to its use.Please don't tell me that the empirical method is the only way. Edited April 27, 2011 by EricofAZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topofmurrayhill Posted May 3, 2011 Share Posted May 3, 2011 You can't predict the melting point that way. You would have to test the resulting composition to determine its melting point.The types of compositions candlemakers often work with don't have melting points in the same sense that water does. The only useful number you can get for them is called the "drop melting point" (or in the case of fats like soy wax, the "Mettler dropping point") but you need special equipment to determine that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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