Talk:Paraffin wax

message: I would like to know the maximum length of the alkane chain found in common paraffin, e.g. in paraffin candles.
-- Leocat 14:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What is paraffin? and what is the density of paraffine wax??

message: I suggest that this article mention the various meanings of the term "paraffin oil". Apparently in the UK it refers to kerosine (US kerosene), but at least in the US it can also mean "An oil either pressed or dry-distilled from paraffin distillate. Liquid petrolatum is also known as paraffin oil. Combustible. ... Used as a floor treatment; lubricant; when purified, as medicine" [Gessner G. Hawley, Condensed Chemical Dictionary, 9th edn. New York-London, etc.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977.]
-- User:Thomas.Hedden 10:15, 19 December 2006 (EST)
On further reflection, I wonder whether the best term for this (at least in the US) is mineral oil (see the Wikipedia article on this).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomas.Hedden (talk • contribs) 20:41, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made the link to the Mineral oil article more obvious, with a  tag. Does this fix the problem? --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:24, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The term "Mineral Oil" is not mentioned in the introduction but is featured as a section heading. There is already a more complete Mineral oil article. Why not reference that instead? I am also confused about Kerosene. The introduction of the Kerosene article contains a more understandable rundown on how these terms are used regionally and how they relate to one another. --Kvng (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

text:  I also think the term "Mineral Oil" should be mentioned very soon after the start of the article. It;s good that it's a section heading, but it should also be mentioned in the introduction, among a short summary of the types of paraffin. 115.70.85.100 (talk) 02:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Mineral oil added to lead, next to octane. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:55, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The term &#34;paraffin oil&#34;

message: Does anyone know where to get info on the paraffin wax price in relative to crude oil prices ??
HI PL Z I WANT TO KNOW THE PRICE OFF 20 TONS OF FULLY REFINED PARAFFIN WAX 60-62 WHITE  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.129.1.5 (talk) 13:05, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraffin wax price 

message: What is the density of paraffin?
    
At 20°C 900-910Kg m3
Why has the density of liquid paraffin not been mentioned? Waqqasd (talk) 13:39, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * Probably the effects of cloaking by the somebody else's problem field--Old Moonraker (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Density 

message: I'm on a mission to prove the show Mythbusters wrong and am on a personal quest to make some paraffin wax, which I will then mix with carbon to make it burn more evenly. Is any one commercially available form of paraffin wax more flammable than another. I am assuming that food grade paraffin is not the best choice for this project. I'll be using the paraffin wax, and an oxidizer to propel a Civil War Era rocket. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~Josh
:Waxes burn, albeit pretty slowly. Paraffin wax is just like any other wax, but it does burn very cleanly, as its mainly normal alkanes. Depending on the oxidizer your using, you may want to consider fully refined paraffin, or food grade, which is <1% oil content, or a slack wax, which is anywhere form ~4% - 40% oil. Doing searches on the websites of several major oil conglomerates may also help... such as Exxon Mobil, PetroCanada, or Hase Petroleum. IGI also deals in paraffin waxes. Hope this helps.
:: Food grade paraffin really burns the best? I'm probably using CO2 for my oxidizer, but depending on what I turn up, I may be using NO2, because I can fit a lot more NO2 into the canister, but I’m not sure how well it would work as an oxidizer (again, still checking). I'm going to mix carbon into the paraffin wax (and it has to be paraffin wax for the test), so it will burn better. Thanks for your help.
:CO2 is not a good oxydizer (it can be reduced to CO, but I doubt if this reaction can be used to propel a rocket). NO2 is a strong oxydizer, but it is very poisonous, so you should be very careful (I recommend wearing a gas mask when dealing with NO2).
-- Leocat 14:22, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making Paraffin wax 

message: I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the volumetric change ratio is when wax goes through a phase change from its solid to liquid state? Noctroglyph 21:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: About ten to twenty percent  --Old Moonraker 16:26, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the volumetric change ratio of paraffin as it changes from the solid to the liquid state? 

message: Not according to the Smucker's website.
Illinoisavonlady 16:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraffin in Magic Shell? 

message: I couldn't find this anywhere?  Does anyone know what it is?
Turgonml 16:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burning Temperature 

message: I wonder what "the disks to be tested" refers to. Unfree (talk) 03:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed: not clear at all. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The disks

message: I had bought a small oil lamp.  The instructions said to use 'liquid paraffin'.  Either this article, or the one on mineral oil said that mineral oil is liquid paraffin.  Having mineral oil handy, I tried it.  It did not work well, either with the glass fiber wick which came with the lamp, or with a fiber wick.  It burned, but the flame was very low.  When I tried lamp oil, the lamp worked 'as advertised'.  Dnorm (talk) 20:22, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mineral Oil as lamp oil

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thread_title: [[WP:FOOD|WikiProject Food and drink]] Tagging

message: Did the stuff mentioned here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIH5LCmrmM
ever become a large scale option for cleaning up oil spills? Or did it fade away or prove to be more problematic than other methods?
Just wondering if anyone knows.
 --Hellahulla (talk) 19:05, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil spillage cleaning. 

message: The referenced range given in the text refers to  waxes with different carbon numbers. Temperatures below the quoted range are found, but  only in impure wax with an admixture of oil (from: ) It's wrong to give a lower temperature, as this only applies to impure mixtures of wax and oil, and I've been reverting it. The explanation is now in the footnote. --Old Moonraker (talk) 06:25, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Another reference work is not so dogmatic, allowing ≥36.4 °C. Added. --Old Moonraker (talk) 20:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

text: I'll offer that identifying the melting point of an impure and highly variable material to the tenth of a degree is in itself a form of dogmatism!  --kradak (talk) 21:52, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melting point of paraffin wax 

message: example: http://www.micronal.de/portal/basf/ien/dt.jsp?setCursor=1_290798
I just edited out a qoute that C25H52 wax is used in these panels. It can't be, because C25H52 melts at 53° - 56°C (Reference: http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.11900.html)
What kind of wax is used in these panels?
JohnnyBatina (talk) 21:49, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type of wax used in phase-changing temperature controling panels 

message: I have heard that solid wax has its characteristic appearance because it is a polycrystal where each crystal is birefringant. Does that sound right? Any sources for that? —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 15:16, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translucence 

message: There is nothing in this article on how these paraffins are derived or how they are synthesized. 2602:306:C518:62C0:14F0:1BF1:7E93:9EB8 (talk) 06:23, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synthesis?????? 

message: I thought that paraffin is a synonym for alkane, if so we should merge the two articles.  In my world, sometimes it refers to a particular kind of wax, in which case we might  alert readers in the lead paragraph of alkane.  Suggestions and comments are welcome.  Maybe I am missing something.--Smokefoot (talk) 01:41, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea.  We could refocus this article onto paraffin wax.   I was going to give this discussion another week or so. Thanks for the helpful suggestion. --Smokefoot (talk) 14:42, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

text: Sorry, I'm against this because paraffin warrants its own article. Although, it needs to be rewritten to focus more on paraffin than on alkanes. Plasmic Physics (talk) 10:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

text: No merger. I took the advice above and move the article to paraffin wax.  I removed content about hydrocarbons in general, added an image of a typical waxy molecule, and expanded the language about disambiguation.  --Smokefoot (talk) 13:28, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[alkane]]?

message: This article should detail health effects. There's lots of pseudoscientific websites claiming it's deadly, though there seem to be some, probably a lot of papers (under a subscription service) that may say otherwise (1 2). All of this should be documented. ɱ (talk) · vbm  · coi) 16:34, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research 

message: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39308748
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/paraffin-based-skin-emollients-on-dressings-or-clothing-fire-risk
https://www.swyapc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Paraffin-containing-skin-products-and-fire-risk-FINAL-24-3-17.pdf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-43009261/fire-tests-show-dangers-of-paraffin-based-skin-creams  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.121.52.82 (talk) 08:42, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraffin based emollients and fire risk 

message: Is there any substitute for paraffin wax? Mopkielisha (talk) 23:32, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paraffin wax