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Paraffin
Paraffin may refer to:
Chemicals
- Paraffin wax, a white or colourless soft solid that is used as a lubricant and for other applications
- Alkane, a saturated hydrocarbon
- Kerosene, a fuel that is also known as paraffin
- Tractor vaporising oil, a fuel
- Liquid paraffin (medicinal), a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and for medical purposes
- Mineral oil, any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable (mineral) source, particularly a distillate of petroleum
- Petroleum jelly, also called soft paraffin
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