paraffine
Americannoun
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Some naturalists claimed at one time that this substance was simply the natural paraffine produced from the products of coal or petroleum.
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It may be found convenient to immerse the coil in paraffine oil or some other kind of oil; it is a most effective way of insulating, principally on account of the perfect exclusion of air, but it may be found that, after all, a vessel filled with oil is not a very convenient thing to handle in a laboratory.
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A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in ~ alcohol or fusel oil, etc.
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The graft in this is that the medicine consists of paraffine dissolved in colored oil.
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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.
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