paraffine
/'pærәfin, -fi:n/
📖 中文释义
- n. 石蜡, (英)火油, (美)kerosene煤油
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless
- and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by
- distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very
- inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It
- was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a
- complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or
- marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid,
- liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and
- kerosene consist largely of paraffins.