Sentence example with the word 'paraffin'

paraffin

alcohol, carbon, crude, ethyl, fossil oil, gasoline, illuminating gas, lead-free gas, motor oil, petrol, rock oil

Definition n. from crude petroleum

Last update: August 28, 2015


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Bring some paraffin to make candles.   [Please select]

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The manufactures comprise sheet-iron, boilers, zinc, brick and tiles, paraffin, petroleum, soap and candles.   [Please select]

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She entered the wide hall which was lit by a ghostly, and not too carefully-trimmed, paraffin lamp.   [Please select]

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One cause of these yellow oil stains can be traced to the use of paraffin wax in the sizing of the warps.   [Please select]

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There are no means which can be adopted before bleaching to ascertain whether paraffin exists in the cloth.   [Please select]

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These mineral oils partake of the nature of paraffin in their properties, and therefore they are unsaponifiable by the action of alkalies.   [Please select]

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Like paraffin wax, they resist the bleaching process, and much in the same manner produce stains.   [Please select]

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A little fire, however, lingered in the grate, and a paraffin lamp smoked and smelt horribly on the dirty deal table.   [Please select]

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