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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...
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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...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    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)...
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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...
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    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...
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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...
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  • Closon (also known by the aliases Vincent, Cou, Coulanges, Derdon, Fouché, Paraffine; (1910-06-18)June 18, 1910 – (1998-12-12)December 12, 1998) was a French...
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    Kazansky B.A., Plate A.F. "Aromtisierung einiger Cyclopentan-Homologen und Paraffine in Gegenwart von Platin-Kohle". Ber.: 1936. Bd. 69. S. 1862–1869. E.I...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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    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...
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  • Shell until 2014. Hartley Vale / 'Petrolea Vale' Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company / 'Petrolea Vale Company' Shale mine with adjacent 'Petrolea Vale'...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • by the merger of two earlier companies, the Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company and the Western Kerosene Oil Company. Both these companies had...
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    time Asinger began to write on the monographs Chemie und Technologie der Paraffine (Chemistry and Technology of paraffins) and Chemie und Technologie der...
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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...
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  • successful plant at Bathgate, Scotland making an illuminating oil he called “paraffine,” from the cannel coal that was mined nearby, the Boghead coal, which...
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    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...
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    Phenomena of Spiritualism. Herbert B. Turner & Co. pp. 224–229 reveals the "Paraffine Mould Test" trick mediums used. Polidoro, Massimo; Garlaschelli, Luigi...
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  • be formed and deposited when the worms are not copulating. Sectioning Paraffine at a Temperature of 25 °Fahrenheit Foot and Strobell, 1905 Description:...
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  • month prior, Kinney was also one of the founding officers of the Pinal Paraffine Oil Company. In 1905 he was one of the founding members, serving on the...
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  • the Cocoons of Allolobophora foetida Foot and Strobell, 1902 Sectioning Paraffine at a Temperature of 25°F Foot and Strobell, 1905 The "Accessory Chromosome"...
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