Excuse me...

Pardon me...

No, no, no...Not up there!

I'm down here.

Yup, hello!

I am a scientist.

And I've come to improve your...situation just a bit.

See that fire over there?

Have you ever really wondered what flames are? From that fire?

I mean, look at all of those colors.

And you feel that heat! It's hot, right?

Oh gee, it must be a torture being around all of these flames and not knowing what they are!

Here, take a look at this cupcake.

You see the flame on top of this delicious looking cupcake?

You do like cupcakes, don't you?

Well, let's take a closer look, shall we?

Fantastic!

If we look at the flame on top of this cupcake

We first notice a few things.

Like, all the colors.

At the bottom, we have this bluish color.

At the top it's more yellow, orange and reddish.

Also, the flame is hot.

Why is it so flaming hot?

Well, to answer these questions,

you need to know something very important.

You see, everything is made of tiny things called atoms.

And these things are the building blocks that make up everything!

And they're really small.

Smaller...smaller...even smaller!

Hey look, you can't even see them, they're so small!

Exactly!

Anything you can think of is made up of atoms.

Yep, this air-conditioner is made up of atoms.

This delicious popsicle is made up of atoms.

This ice-water is made up of atoms.

Everything is made up of billions and billions of atoms!

Now this candle and flame, they're made up of three different knds of atoms.

Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen.

The Carbon and the Hydrogen are locked together to form solid wax and ...???