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countable and uncountable, plural paraffins
(UK) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil. quotations examples
She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 57”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
(chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons. examples
paraffin wax. examples
third-person singular simple present paraffins, present participle paraffining, simple past and past participle paraffined
To impregnate or treat with paraffin. examples
To embed in paraffin wax. examples