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What is the adjective for paraffines?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs paraffin and paraffinate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

paraffinated
paraffinic
  1. Of or pertaining to paraffin, or to the alkanes
  2. aliphatic
  3. Examples:
    1. “Oils containing naphthene are less pesticidal and more likely to injure plants than paraffinic types.”
      “Nile Blend Crude Oil is a paraffinic crude oil with a high wax content, high pour point and high wax appearance temperature.”
      “Thirteen were found to contain air tainted with a group of paraffinic hydrocarbons emitted by wet-process copiers.”
paraffiny
  1. Resembling or characteristic of paraffin.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.”
paraffined
  1. simple past tense and past participle of paraffin
paraffining
  1. present participle of paraffin
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