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Definition of Paraffin scale
1. Noun. Partly refined paraffin wax.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paraffin Scale
Literary usage of Paraffin scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"The solid paraffin, which is known in its crude state as paraffin scale, ...
( 31*84 paraffin scale . . 13-53 Intermediate and heavy oils 23*97 Tota 75-43 ..."
2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1910)
"paraffin scale. Crude Paraffin.—"Scale" is the technical name for the crude ...
In the practical assay of paraffin scale, methods must be employed which are ..."
3. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"Paraffin Wax* (a) Hard; (b) Soft (paraffin scale; Ceresin). Color and properties:
White translucent, ... Before purification it is known as paraffin scale. ..."
4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1900)
"In the practical assay of paraffin scale, methods must be employed which are
acceptable under reasonable conditions by all interested parties. ..."
5. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"The weight of the paraffin scale so obtained divided by the weight of trn distillate
taken and multiplied by the percentage of the total distillate obtained ..."
6. The Technical Examination of Crude Petroleum, Petroleum Products and Natural by William Allen Hamor, Fred Warde Padgett (1920)
"The filter-tube then is placed in a clean filter-flask which also contains a 6-in.
test-tube in which the dissolved paraffin scale is later collected. ..."