paraffine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When she was gone I poured out the rest of the paraffine, and called out through the closed curtains for a cigar.
From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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 Henry J. Slack
The melting point of commercial paraffine varies much.
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by William T. Lewis
Young, soon after, in 1850, patented paraffine oil made from coal.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
Set in the sun until it is firm, then cover with melted paraffine.
From Civic League Cook Book by
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