SC - SC Eggs Question

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- -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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