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n. A waxy white or colorless solid hydrocarbon mixture used to make candles, wax paper, lubricants, and sealing materials. Also called paraffin wax.

n. Chemistry A member of the alkane series.

n. Chiefly British Kerosene.

v. To saturate, impregnate, or coat with paraffin.

n. A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel oil, (kerosene in US English).

n. Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.

n. paraffin wax.

v. To impregnate or treat with paraffin

n. A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.

n. The collective name for compounds of the marsh-gas series which have the general formula CnH2n + 2—that is, two more than twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon atoms.

n. Specifically, in com. and manufacturing, a substance obtained by the dry distillation of wood, peat, bituminous coal, wax, etc.

n. Petroleum or kerosene.

To coat or impregnate with paraffin; treat with paraffin.

n. a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)

n. (British usage) kerosine

n. from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings

"Moreover, it was known that ligation of the ducts of the pancreas, or their injection by oil or paraffin, is not followed by diabetes."

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