parafin

When he opened the back for them, he could smell "parafin," a commonly used lamp oil, in the back.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 34 weeks 4 days ago if you can fit in some cotton balls soaked in parafin, or a little bottle of kerosene or lamp oil [the bottles that brake fluid come in work] .... you can get wet wood going

With just about every home built survival kit that I have read about, people always recommend waterproof matches. 2009

Back 100 years ago, we faced similar circumstances but with different products: people selling snake oil and unqualified physicians injecting parafin into women's breasts, says Kaveh Alizadeh, a plastic surgeon with the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group.

Lack of training can be deadly in cosmetic surgery 2011

They were made of some sort of soft parafin wax (probably cancerous for all we knew) and filled with a sweet juice.

Candy of an Era Past « Colleen Anderson 2009

Hybrids have also been demonstrated with HTPB and O2 as well as propellents with things like parafin (see Mythbusters) and sausages.

Virgin Galactic News from ISDC - NASA Watch 2009

When I started fly fishing 40 years ago, we used to put flakes of parafin and lighter fluid into a bottle, and prayed for warm temperatures.

When using dry flies do you use floatant on the fly? 2009

Yes | No | Report from Elmer Fudd wrote 34 weeks 4 days ago if you can fit in some cotton balls soaked in parafin, or a little bottle of kerosene or lamp oil [the bottles that brake fluid come in work] .... you can get wet wood going

With just about every home built survival kit that I have read about, people always recommend waterproof matches. 2009

When I started fly fishing 40 years ago, we used to put flakes of parafin and lighter fluid into a bottle, and prayed for warm temperatures.

When using dry flies do you use floatant on the fly? 2009

I haven read anybody mention smokeless lantern oil, aka Ultrapure Lamplight, 99% parafin liquid.

Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions 2010

I loved the beeswax candle tutorial and would love to see a parafin or parafin/soy blend container candle tutorial.

New Contest! New Contest! New Contest! Anne-Marie 2007