paraffine
Paraffine is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter P and ends with the letter E for which we found 1 definitions.
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| (n.) 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. |
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