As fibrotic@fibonatic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is that those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As fibrotic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is that those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As @fibonatic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is that those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As fibonaticfibrotic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is becausethat those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As fibonatic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is because those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As fibrotic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is that those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.
As fibonatic noted, you are blowing the flame activity away from the wick, but that's not the entire story: if the wick were still the same temperature it would immediately reignite. You are super-cooling the system by introducing a large mass which can't be heated enough to sustain the fire in time.
This is, incidentally, one of the primary reasons why water is so good at extinguishing fires -- its not just that water can provide a barrier between free oxygen and the fuel (that's after the system has cooled, as vaporized water would simply evacuate itself), its that it is extremely dense and dissipates a vast number of calories in a very short time, robbing the system of its sustainable base energy. The reason this does not work on vapor fires (oil, gas, liquified plastics, etc) is because those systems are usually not carrying enough calories in a solid body to impact and they are extremely volatile (a single spark...). It is possible to put out a gas fire with cool water vapor in a laboratory setting, just extremely unreliable in the real world.