paraffine
Americannoun
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The paraffine does not digest, but collects in colored balls, which are passed by handfuls and are excellent imitations of the real things.
From Quacks and Grafters by Unknown
This operation divides the paraffine into two parts: the solid paraffine wax from which candles, etc., are made remaining in the bags, while that which is expressed is paraffine oil.
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.
That of the oils used, viz., olive sperm, neat's-foot, and paraffine, the samples of paraffine oil on copper was least affected, and that sperm was next in order of inaction.
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.
A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in ~ alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
An ordinary lamp may be made to answer for microscopic use, but one of the small paraffine lamps now sold everywhere for eighteen-pence is singularly convenient.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.
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