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What is the noun for paraffin?

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paraffin
  1. (Britain) A petroleum based thin and colorless fuel oil, (kerosene in US English).
  2. (chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
  3. Paraffin wax.
  4. Synonyms:
paraffining
  1. The action of coating with paraffin
paraffine
  1. Alternative spelling of paraffin
  2. Examples:
    1. “The mixture must be kept in bottles coated on the inside with paraffine or wax.”
      “Drop from a small spoon on paraffine paper on a baking sheet and bake a delicate brown in a cool oven.”
      “Many prefer paraffine oil rather than boiled oil or turps for thinning down both black and colored inks.”
paraffines
  1. plural of paraffine
paraffins
  1. plural of paraffin
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “These fuels contain paraffins, cycloparaffins, aromatics, and olefins.”
      “Products consisted of a mixture of phenyl and cycloalkyl methyl ethers, alkylbenzenes, branched paraffins and alkylated cycloalkanes.”
      “Toxicity is greatest with the aromatic hydrocarbons followed by the naphthenes and least with the paraffins.”
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