A hydrocarbon compound that often precipitates on production components as a result of the changing temperatures and pressures within the production system. Heavy paraffins occur as wax-like substance [..]

  A light-colored, wax-free oil obtained by pressing paraffin distillate.

  The wax removed from paraffin distillates by chilling and pressing. When separating from solutions, it is a colorless, more or less translucent, crystalline mass, without odor and taste, slightly gr [..]

1. a waxy substance that is a mixture of alkanes with chains containing 18 to 36 carbon atoms. 2. An alkane.

1838, from German Paraffin, coined c. 1830 by German chemist Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869), who first obtained it as a waxy substance from wood tar, irregularly from Latin parum "not very, too [..]

Any hydrocarbon identified by saturated straight (normal) or branched (iso) carbon chains; also called an alkane. The generalized paraffinic molecule can be symbolized by the formula CnH2n+2. Paraffin [..]

a kind of oil that is burned in stoves and lamps

Paraffin is a waxy substance made up of a mixture of alkanes with a total number of carbon atoms between 20 and 40. Paraffin is also used as another word for alkanes or hydrocarbons with only single carbon-carbon bonds.

A waxy substance used for coating items such as cheese and the tops of jars of jams and jellies to keep air out, thus preventing spoilage.

Any hydrocarbon of the methane series, especially any of the solid members boiling above 572°F.

(n) from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings(n) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)(n) (British usage) kerosine [..]

Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry Paraffin: (1) An old term for a saturated acyclic alkane (not a cycloalkane). Now mostly out of use. Methane    Hexane    2-Methylpentane Methane, hexane, and [..]

A mixture of solid hydrocarbons obtained from Petroleum. It has a wide range of uses including as a stiffening agent in Ointments, as a lubricant, and as a topical anti-inflammatory. It is also common [..]

A mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained from Petroleum. It is used as laxative, lubricant, ointment base, and emollient.

Hydrocarbons belonging to the series starting with methane (CH4). Paraffins are saturated with respect to hydrogen. High molecular weight paraffins are solid such as paraffin wax.

A mixture of solid hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum. It has a wide range of uses including as a stiffening agent in ointments, as a lubricant, and as a topical anti-inflammatory. It is also common [..]

Petrochemical bleached with carcinogen acrolyn; releases carcinogens benzene and toluene upon heating; causes kidney or renal system tumor in animals; environmental toxin

A saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

  A white, odorless, tasteless, chemically inert, waxy substance derived from distilling petroleum; a crystalline, flammable substance composed of saturated hydrocarbons.

A white, tasteless, odorless, chemically inert, waxy substance obtained from some petroleum oils.

Highly refined, colorless, heavy USP oil used for medicinal purposes and other applications.

(British) A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel oil, (kerosene in US English). * '''1919''', , '''', *: She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire. [..]