(UK, Irish) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
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(petrochemistry, organic compound) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
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To impregnate or treat with paraffin.
“Xiangyu Li, Tingxuan Guo, Yang Li, Kaifeng Zhao: FID Magnetometer Based on Paraffin-Coated Planar Reflective Multipass Cells https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01460 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01460 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01460”
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