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paraffine

Length / number of characters: 9
Number of words: 1

  • from crude petroleum
  • a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n 2)
  • (British usage) kerosineparaffin oil
  • A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and 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

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