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paraffin
noun(par-af-fin)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
paraffin
noun(par-af-fin)any of various mixtures of similar hydrocarbons including mixtures that are semisolid or oily
paraffin
noun(par-af-fin)alkane
paraffin
noun(par-af-fin)any of numerous saturated hydrocarbons; specifically : any of a series of open-chain hydrocarbons CnH2n+2 (such as methane and butane) —called also paraffin