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    1851. Natural wax was largely replaced for the making of waxed paper (or paraffine paper) after Herman Frasch developed ways of purifying paraffin and coating...
    5 KB (598 words) - 22:35, 14 April 2024
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    has a carcinogenic risk if its dust is inhaled. From 1905 to 1988, The Paraffine Paint Co. of San Francisco had Malthoid as a trademark for waterproof...
    14 KB (1,915 words) - 08:26, 30 January 2024
  • He extracted a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named paraffine oil because at low temperatures, it congealed into a substance that resembled...
    52 KB (6,187 words) - 05:35, 11 May 2024
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    he could obtain several useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine oil" because at low temperatures it congealed into a substance resembling...
    132 KB (14,842 words) - 13:59, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luther Atwood
    he refined to a quality grade of paraffine lubricating oil. From the paraffine oil he obtained a solid white paraffine, which melted at about 130 °F (54 °C)...
    9 KB (1,045 words) - 05:55, 23 July 2023
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    could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine oil" because at low temperatures it congealed into a substance resembling...
    84 KB (10,374 words) - 16:21, 25 April 2024
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    been revealed that no autopsy had been done on the singer's corpse, no paraffine test, and no calligraphic analysis on the suicide note with which he explained...
    17 KB (2,114 words) - 08:30, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the petroleum industry
    could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine oil" because at low temperatures it congealed into a substance resembling...
    35 KB (4,415 words) - 04:38, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antonio Meucci
    the same. 1860 First paraffin candle factory in the world, the New York Paraffine Candle Co., set up in Clifton, New York, early in 1860, then moved to...
    62 KB (8,008 words) - 18:21, 29 April 2024
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    (known as "Paraffin" Young), for "treating bituminous coals to obtain paraffine therefrom". With the world's first oil wells coming on-line in 1854 in...
    20 KB (2,229 words) - 01:32, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Young (chemist)
    could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named "paraffine oil" because at low temperatures it congealed into a substance resembling...
    16 KB (1,906 words) - 11:46, 27 February 2024
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    CORP Formats: CD, Digital downloads 1 87 4 5 "Juillet (1998)" (5:10) "Paraffine" (4:20) "Rag #5" (1:32) 'Tallulah' (3:42) "Bermudes" (2:30) "Azulejos"...
    10 KB (377 words) - 03:47, 14 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Winifred Sackville Stoner
    two patents. She sold her 1920 patent for a candy wrapper to the Newark Paraffine & Parchement Paper Co. In 1923, she received patent no. 184693 for a powder...
    5 KB (574 words) - 14:35, 24 November 2023
  • Shell until 2014. Hartley Vale / 'Petrolea Vale' Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company / 'Petrolea Vale Company' Shale mine with adjacent 'Petrolea Vale'...
    109 KB (5,452 words) - 13:16, 16 April 2024
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    somewhat bluntly tipped. It contains six whorls, shining with the lustre of paraffine. The protoconch is rather large, bullate, smooth, translucent, shining...
    3 KB (301 words) - 18:46, 4 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
    July 1871, he bought the assets of the rival Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company, at auction. His purchase facilitated the merger of the two companies...
    17 KB (1,778 words) - 10:18, 20 February 2024
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    Samuel C. Irving, was mayor of Berkeley and owner of San Francisco-based Paraffine Companies Inc., where both worked. The company and its employees sponsored...
    13 KB (1,191 words) - 15:59, 27 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Asinger
    time Asinger began to write on the monographs Chemie und Technologie der Paraffine (Chemistry and Technology of paraffins) and Chemie und Technologie der...
    8 KB (998 words) - 05:28, 12 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Helen Wilson Fell
    the amalgamation of two shale oil companies—Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Co. Ltd. and Western Kerosene Oil Co.—to form the New South Wales Shale...
    7 KB (667 words) - 02:39, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franek Kluski
    Phenomena of Spiritualism. Herbert B. Turner & Co. pp. 224–229 reveals the "Paraffine Mould Test" trick mediums used. Polidoro, Massimo; Garlaschelli, Luigi...
    12 KB (1,374 words) - 21:52, 8 February 2024
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