SC - SC Eggs Question

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Paraffin wax, commonly called paraffin in the US, is a white translucent
solid produced as a by-product of refining petroleum into kerosene, commonly
called  paraffin in Great Britain.  

Paraffin in solid and liquid forms appears to have been originally produced
by a Scottish chemist, James Young, in 1851.

Bear

> -Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
> 
> Paraffin is the same as kerosene. Smelly liquid type stuff. I've also seen
> 
> Paraffin Gauze used as a dressing.  It's a gauze pad with yellow gooey
> stuff like 
> smelly vaseline soaked through it.  I've heard of paraffin wax, but don't
> know 
> what that is.... It's not the stuff they use at Madame Toussaud's is it
> ;-)
> 
> Elysant
> 
> Helen wrote
> >I would think paraffine would the clear wax used in food.  Topping jelly
> jars and
> >adding th chocolate for dipping.
> 
> Adamantius wrote 
> >> Dick's Practical Encyclopedia (yes, one of its dimensions is 10"),
> which
> >> was re-issued in the 1960's subtitled "How They Did It in the 1870's",
> >> mentions various coatings, ranging from olive oil, melted beeswax,
> >> paraffine (by which I presume they mean what Americans call kerosene),
> >> and varnishing compounds like collodion, in some cases supplemented
> >> after coating by burying in sawdust, bran, or charcoal dust.
>  
> 
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