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Most candles contain paraffin, a petroleum-based wax that produces black soot when burned.
Among the dodgy remedies are cowpats to draw boils, liquid paraffin to ease constipation and vinegar for almost everything.
The lymph node and bone marrow biopsy specimens were tested by paraffin section immunohistochemistry.
Characteristic branching ossification was identified in 7 of the 8 cases by radiographing the paraffin blocks or the wet tissue.
Butter has been stored and shipped in wooden barrels, casks, tubs, and eventually paraffin paper and parchment.
In addition to the tyres, the shed also contained a number of 45-gallon drums of benzole, rubber solution and paraffin.
The paraffin used in Walker's lamp had waxlike properties but was not a true wax like carnauba or beeswax.
Cintech offers nail technology services, which include manicures, pedicures, spa treatments and paraffin.
Did you know that the calorific value of beeswax is much greater than that of paraffin wax?
Homes in villages are lit with paraffin wicks in tin cans filled with kerosene, a substance that is both dangerous and expensive.
He cooks by heating pans over a coal fire, while dozens of candles and a paraffin lamp provide him with light.
Without heating or electricity, they cook on butane stoves, warm themselves with paraffin heaters and use candles and lamps for lighting.
I do not use paraffin, Vaseline, lanolin or petroleum based by-products in my range because these ingredients are barrier products in my view.
It's believed one of the fires was started using paraffin and other flammable materials stored in the shed.
They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
Tissue samples are preserved in formalin or occasionally other fixatives before processing and embedding in paraffin.
From tallow through beeswax to paraffin wax, candles have evolved quite as dramatically as the human kind.
For DNA extraction, three 10 m sections were cut from paraffin blocks, dewaxed and dried in a vacuum.
In the net lofts along the ship canal they tar their seine twine with paraffin to protect against salt water.
Do you select scented or unscented candles, beeswax, soybean or paraffin, leaded or unleaded wicks?
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Examples from Classical Literature
The brain and spinal cord should be embedded in paraffin or a carrot, and the section mounted in dammar.
The cornea of the eye can be readily cut by embedding in paraffin, and the section may be mounted in Farrant's solution.
These stones should be lubricated with a mixture of olive oil and paraffin in equal parts.
They are made waterproof by painting with paraffin, which has been liquefied in gasoline.
The necessity for this coating of sulphur or paraffin you will understand by an experiment.
Very similar remarks apply to paraffin, and, in certain countries, to denatured alcohol.
Sections of the tongue may be made by embedding in paraffin, and mounted in Farrant's solution or glycerine.
Sections of the stomach may also be made by embedding in paraffin, but better ones can be made by freezing.
The hot water will heat the turpentine, and the turpentine will melt the paraffin.
Then pile your tent into a tub and pour in the turpentine and paraffin mixture.
Therefore he had treated with cholesterin the paraffin in his bucket, and this same cholesterin reappeared in the resulting glove.
The dielectric consisted of about equal parts of hard paraffin and vaseline.
There were some unconsumed shavings there, as well as a tin which had once held paraffin.
Out of a cannel that came to be mixed with soda ash he obtained a quantity of liquid that contained paraffin.
On light-weight goods the softener giving the most general satisfaction is paraffin.
Wax candles are now seldom moulded, but if so the same processes are followed as for stearic and paraffin candles.
Also it is distilled in Scotland from oil shale, from which paraffin oil and wax and similar substances are produced.
In course of time the paraffin will be found to have separated from the glass.
A piece of varnished glass tube is pushed through the cork, which should be varnished with shellac or with paraffin wax.
If kept in corked bottles, the corks should be covered with paraffin wax to prevent access of moisture.
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