wax

• When booking a wax, ask whether the wax is recycled (you really don't want anyone else's wax near you). —  Home | Mail Online
• The wood used in these firestarters is shredded pine and the wax is a biodegradable soy wax. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
• In some cases stearopten or other wax is added, to render the oil more similar in appearance to the natural article, but as these are inodorous, no advantage is gained in this way, and there is, further, the inconvenience in cold weather of having to first melt the oil before use Safrol_, an ether which is the chief constituent of sassafras oil, and also found in considerable quantity in camphor oil. —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
• Now fill the cylinder with lathe wax, and while the wax is warm, slip on the joint wire. —  A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material
• This wax was afterwards removed, and replaced on the inside by plaster of Paris. —  El Kab

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