| 单词 | mineral wax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmineral wax mineral wax n. now rare a natural paraffin wax, such as ozokerite or hatchettite. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Mineral wax. 1872 Manufacturer & Builder Apr. 83/1 Organisms from bygone ages..of which the remnants are now found buried as coal, petroleum, asphaltum, amber, honey-stone, mineral wax, maltha, etc. 1958 Jrnl. Ecol. 46 339 Dr Prince and his colleagues did manage to develop a technique of constructing a sterile dam of mineral wax across the middle of each plate. mineral wax c. A mineral product somewhat resembling bees-wax. fossil wax or mineral wax = ozokerite n. paraffin wax: see paraffin wax n. at paraffin n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > waxes mountain tar1798 maltha1807 sea-wax1807 ozokerite1834 mineral wax1838 bog-butter1863 wax1866 petrostearin1879 impsonite1901 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 448 Fossil wax of Moldavia. 1842 G. W. Francis Dict. Arts Wax, Mineral, a bituminous substance, found at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, near Slarick. 1868 H. Watts Dict. Chem. (1877) V. 1037 Wax, Fossil. Syn. with Ozocerite. < as lemmas |
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