enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Paraffin wax - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax

   Paraffin wax (or petroleum wax) is a soft colorless solid derived from petroleum, coal, or oil shale that consists of a mixture of hydrocarbon molecules containing between 20 and 40 carbon atoms. It is solid at room temperature and begins to melt above approximately 37 °C (99 °F), [ 2 ] and its boiling point is above 370 °C (698 °F). [ 2 ]

3. Petroleum product - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_product

   Paraffin wax, used in illumination (candle wax) and other uses. May be shipped in bulk to a site to prepare as packaged blocks. Slack wax, a raw refinery output comprising a mixture of oil and wax used as a precursor for scale wax and paraffin wax and as-is in non-food products such as wax emulsions, construction board, matches, candles, rust ...

4. Chlorinated paraffins - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorinated_paraffins

   Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) are complex mixtures of polychlorinated n-alkanes (paraffin wax). The chlorination degree of CPs can vary between 30 and 70 wt% . CPs are subdivided according to their carbon chain length into short-chain CPs (SCCPs, C 10–13 ), medium-chain CPs (MCCPs, C 14–17 ) and long-chain CPs (LCCPs, C >17 ).

5. Microcrystalline wax - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcrystalline_wax

   Microcrystalline waxes are a type of wax produced by de-oiling petrolatum, as part of the petroleum refining process. In contrast to the more familiar paraffin wax which contains mostly unbranched alkanes, microcrystalline wax contains a higher percentage of isoparaffinic (branched) hydrocarbons and naphthenic hydrocarbons. [1]

6. Dussek Campbell Ltd - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dussek_Campbell_Ltd

   Dussek Campbell Ltd was a UK-based company that manufactured speciality blends of waxes, oils, resins and polymers, for use in a variety of applications including the waterproofing of the insides of telecom and power cables, packaging, household items (e.g. candles), casting waxes for casting of metal parts in foundries, and construction.

7. Liquid paraffin (drug) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_paraffin_(drug)

   Liquid paraffin, also known as paraffinum liquidum, paraffin oil, liquid paraffin oil or Russian mineral oil, is a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and medicine. Cosmetic or medicinal liquid paraffin should not be confused with the paraffin (i.e. kerosene ) used as a fuel.