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action rather than absorption is desired, and as a protective coating for metallic surfaces. " Vaseline " is a registered proprietary name (coined from the See also:

German Wasser, See also:

WATER

water, the See also:

Greek EAawv, oil, and the termination -ihe), and is strictly applicable only to the material manufactured. by one See also:

COMPANY

company (the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company), but it is commonly applied in a generic sense. As met with in, See also:

commerce, vaseline is a semi-solid mixture of See also:

HYDROCARBONS

hydrocarbons, having a melting-point usually ranging from a little below to a few degrees above See also:

ioo° F. It is colourless, or of a See also:

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale yellow See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, translucent, fluorescent, amorphous and devoid of See also:

TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste and See also:

SMELL (connected etymologically with " smoulder " and " smoke ")

smell, It does not oxidize on exposure to the See also:

air, and is not readily acted on by chemical reagents. It is soluble, in See also:

CHLOROFORM (trichlor-methane), CHC13

chloroform, See also:

BENZENE, C6H6

benzene, See also:

CARBON (symbol C, atomic weight 12)

carbon bisulphide and oil of See also:

TURPENTINE (in M. Eng. turbentine, adapted through the O. Fr. turbentine or terebentine from Lat. terebinthina, sc. resina, resin of the terebinth, Gr. eepiOtvOos or eippavOos)

turpentine. It also dissolves in warm See also:

ETHER, (C2H5)2O

ether and in hot See also:

ALCOHOL

alcohol, but separates from the latter in flakes on cooling. The See also:

PROCESS

process employed by the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company the manufacture of vaseline is said to consist essentially in the careful See also:

DISTILLATION (from the Lat. distillare, more correctly destillare, to drop or trickle down)

distillation of selected crude petroleum, vacuum-stills being used to minimize See also:

DISSOCIATION

dissociation, and filtration of the See also:

RESIDUE (through the French, from the Lat. residuum, a remainder, from residere, to remain)

residue through granular See also:

animal See also:

CHARCOAL

charcoal. The filters are either See also:

steam-jacketed, or are placed in rooms heated to ieo° F., or higher. The first runnings from the filters are colourless, and when they become coloured to a certain extent they are collected for use as a lubricant under the name of filtered See also:

CYLINDER (Gr. KvAwSpos, from KvXivaety, to roll)

cylinder oil." (B.

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