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"Paraffin" Definition

noun

A waxy white or colorless solid hydrocarbon mixture used to make candles, wax paper, lubricants, and sealing materials. Also called paraffin wax.
Chemistry A member of the alkane series.
Chiefly British Kerosene.
A waxy crystalline flammable substance obtained especially from distillates of wood, coal, petroleum, or shale oil that is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and is used chiefly in coating and sealing, in candles, in rubber compounding, and in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
Any of various mixtures of similar hydrocarbons including mixtures that are semisolid or oily.

verb-transitive

To saturate, impregnate, or coat with paraffin.

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