Synonyms:
methane_series, alkane_series, alkane, paraffin_series, paraffin
Meaning: a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
Synonyms:
paraffin, paraffin_wax
Meaning: from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
Usage examples
'How often,' said mother, opening the door--'how often am I to tell you that you are NOT to play with paraffin?
Record is a mixture of vegetable tar, paraffin, soft soap, and linseed oil, with some patent addition which prevents freezing--this according to Gran.
'It might,' said Robert; 'but I should think paraffin would do as well--at any rate as far as the smell goes, and that seems to be the great thing about Tatcho.'
Alas! the Phoenix had unconsciously warmed to its subject, and in the unintentional heat of the moment had set fire to the paraffin with which that morning the children had anointed the carpet.
So a small teaspoonful of the Tatcho was put on the edges of the worst darn in the carpet and rubbed carefully into the roots of the hairs of it, and all the parts that there was not enough Tatcho for had paraffin rubbed into them with a piece of flannel.