Paraffin

Paraffin may refer to:

Chemicals

• Kerosene, a fuel that is also known as paraffin
• Paraffin wax, a white or colourless soft solid that is used as a lubricant and for other applications
• Alkane, a saturated hydrocarbon
• Tractor vaporising oil, a fuel
• Liquid paraffin (drug), a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and for medical purposes
• Mineral oil, any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable (mineral) source, particularly a distillate of petroleum
• Petroleum jelly, also called soft paraffin

Other uses

• "Paraffin" (song) the first single off the 1995 album Salt Peter by Ruby
• Paraffin - WiX command-line tool, a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages from an XML document

See also

• Kerosene (disambiguation)
• Paraffin test