# Paraffin

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**Paraffin** is a general term for various hydrocarbons. It may refer to:

## Substances

- [Paraffin wax](/source/Paraffin_wax), a white or colourless soft solid (also in liquid form) that is used as a lubricant and for other applications
- [Liquid paraffin (drug)](/source/Liquid_paraffin_(drug)), a very highly refined mineral oil used in cosmetics and for medical purposes
- [Alkane](/source/Alkane), a saturated hydrocarbon
- [Kerosene](/source/Kerosene), a fuel that is also known as paraffin
- [Mineral oil](/source/Mineral_oil), any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable (mineral) source, particularly a distillate of petroleum
- [Petroleum jelly](/source/Petroleum_jelly), also called soft paraffin
- [Tractor vaporizing oil](/source/Tractor_vaporizing_oil), a fuel for petrol-paraffin engines

## Other uses

- ["Paraffin" (song)](/source/Paraffin_(song)) the first single off the 1995 album *Salt Peter* by Ruby
- [Paraffin - WiX command-line tool](/source/WiX#Heat), a free software toolset that builds Windows Installer (MSI) packages from an XML document
- [*Paraffin* (album)](/source/Paraffin_(album))

## See also

- [Kerosene (disambiguation)](/source/Kerosene_(disambiguation))
- [Paraffin oil (disambiguation)](/source/Paraffin_oil_(disambiguation))
- [Paraffin test](/source/Paraffin_test)

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