Hydrocarbon waxes (14C)
Hydrocarbon waxes
Paraffin wax (petroleum).  Paraffin wax.  A complex combination of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum fractions (by solvent crystallization or the sweating process) or from the catalytic hydrogenation of carbon monoxide (the Fischer-Tropsch Process).  It consists predominantly of straight chain hydrocarbons having carbon numbers predominantly greater than C20.