Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle.

熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。

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The candle guttered out when the melted wax ran down its sides.

熔化的蜡沿着蜡烛四周淌下，蜡烛就渐渐熄灭了。

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To his surprise, he discovered that the carbon in the candle wax had formed all four types of pure carbon, including diamonds and graphite, or pencil lead.

令他吃惊的是，他发现蜡烛里的碳已经形成了纯碳的四种形态，包括：钻石、石墨和铅笔芯。

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The skin above her collarbone had the clean, smoky, late-October smell of candle wax.

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Using a handheld glue gun, and armed with a home-cooked slurry of polyethylene and candle wax, he built the shape layer by layer.

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