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  • Two take a cat food can (or small tuna fish can) fill it with a strip of corrugated cardboard coiled into a spiral (so the corrugations are aligned with the axis of the can), once the can is filled with the cardboard coil then fill the can with melted parrafin wax.

    Build A Survival Fire With Condoms and Underwear 2009

  • Two take a cat food can (or small tuna fish can) fill it with a strip of corrugated cardboard coiled into a spiral (so the corrugations are aligned with the axis of the can), once the can is filled with the cardboard coil then fill the can with melted parrafin wax.

    Build A Survival Fire With Condoms and Underwear 2009

  • I was thinking about mixing beeswax and parrafin wax together.

    Candle Making - Set up and Melting Anne-Marie 2007

  • To add to Lydia - one cannot always find new lids for a lot of recycled jars... and, while fat and parrafin kind of work, they won't work for all foods.

    At My Table 2008

  • Then off to Stayte Services in Stroud to get our gas canisters refilled which was kinda urgant as at the moment its the only heating the Bakery has. i asked Barbara if she wanted anything and she said she'd like some parrafin from the Green Shop as they sell it 'loose' ie you can refill your own canister.

    Snell-Pym » Parafin Shower 2008

  • In Harare, lines for fuel and parrafin cooking oil last for hours.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • A sideboard was by the door covered with a clean cloth, a parrafin lamp, two trays and a bowl of lavender.

    Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926

  • Because this and the other tests work using archived formalin fixed, parrafin embedded (FFPE) tumor samples.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Joseph Krueger 2010

  • She has been selling such items as detergent, soft drinks, parrafin and more, for the past ten years to the local people.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • Included in this kit is a candle, for creating that point-source of light (photons a by-product of the combustion of parrafin), and two thin-film glasses etched with a pattern designed to diffuse the light-waves into a heart-shaped rainbows.

    ThinkGeek :: What's New 2009

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