Paraffin oil shale oil from, or other asphalt some of the house that the mineral oil extracted a strange kind of wax, white or light yellow translucent content, has very obvious crystal structure. Another character paraffin wax.

Crude paraffin wax because oil content more, is mainly used to produce the match, chipboard, canvas awnings, etc. Join in paraffin after its melting point, polyolefin additive increased flexibility and adhesion, increase, widely used in moisture, waterproof wrapping paper, cardboard and some textile coating and candles production. The paper into paraffin wax can be obtained after a good waterproof properties of all kinds of wax paper, and can be used in food, medicine and other packaging, metal anti-rusting and printing; Paraffin wax to join after bombazine, can make the textile soft, smooth and elastic; Paraffin wax can also made detergent, emulsifier, dispersant, plasticizer, the grease, etc. Due to the animal and plant resources of wax wax more and more nervous, now of the candles are mostly made of paraffin wax. When heated paraffin wax melting, candle burns shine, to brave the black smoke, the exothermic chemical. All the refined paraffin and half a refined paraffin wax purpose is very wide, mainly used as food, oral medicines and some commodities (such as wax paper, crayons, candles, carbon) components and packaging materials, roasted containers, used for fresh fruit with dressing, electrical components insulation, improve the rubber anti-aging sex and increase flexibility, etc. Can also be used to oxidation generating synthetic fatty acids.