paraffin: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of paraffin

  • paraffins
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    paraffin

    • noun from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
      paraffin wax.
    • noun a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
      alkane; paraffin series; alkane series; methane series.
  • paraffinic
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    paraffinic

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  • paraffine
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    paraffine

    (Chem.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins. ✍ In the present chemical usage this word is spelt paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt paraffine.
  • paraffined
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    paraffine

    (Chem.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins. ✍ In the present chemical usage this word is spelt paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt paraffine.

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