Paraffin

Paraffin is a general term for various hydrocarbons. It may refer to:

Substances

• Paraffin wax, a white or colourless soft solid (also in liquid form) that is used as a lubricant and for other applications
• Liquid paraffin (drug), a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and for medical purposes
• Alkane, a saturated hydrocarbon
• Kerosene, a fuel that is also known as paraffin
• Mineral oil, any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable (mineral) source, particularly a distillate of petroleum
• Petroleum jelly, also called soft paraffin
• Tractor vaporizing oil, a fuel for petrol-paraffin engines

Other uses

• "Paraffin" (song) the first single off the 1995 album Salt Peter by Ruby
• Paraffin - WiX command-line tool, a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages from an XML document
• Paraffin (album)

See also

• Kerosene (disambiguation)
• Paraffin oil (disambiguation)
• Paraffin test