paraffine

[ par-uh-fin, -feen ]

noun

1. paraffin.

Example Sentences

Some naturalists claimed at one time that this substance was simply the natural paraffine produced from the products of coal or petroleum.

From Project Gutenberg

The whisky sold to the natives is of the most horrible kind, scarcely superior to “coal oil” or paraffine.

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It may be found convenient to immerse the coil in paraffine oil or some other kind of oil; it is a most effective way of insulating, principally on account of the perfect exclusion of air, but it may be found that, after all, a vessel filled with oil is not a very convenient thing to handle in a laboratory.

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This feature may be easily observed with an ordinary induction coil by taking the primary out, plugging up the end of the tube upon which the secondary is wound, and filling it with some fairly transparent insulator, such as paraffine oil.

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There seems not to be a very great difference whatever kind of oil is used; I use paraffine or linseed oil.

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