Although solar panels are active while the sun is shining, they typically don't do much once the sun goes down. A newly-developed device, however, uses paraffin to store heat energy until it's needed.

Wax papers that use vegetable or soybean oil are a more environmentally friendly option than those that use petroleum-based paraffin, which is a by-product of the unsustainable fossil fuel industry.

Paraffin oil, a common ingredient in candles, wax polishes, cosmetics and water-proofing compounds, was their material of choice for this endeavor because it is organic, ...

Paraffin is commonly found in candles, wax polishes, cosmetics, and water-proofing products. The engineers reportedly chose it for their experiments because it is organic, widely available, and ...

The tensile specimens were prepared from a thin paraffin sheet formed by pouring liquid paraffin upon a clean, ... Continental Oil Co., P.O. Drawer 1267, Ponca City, Oklahoma. F. J. RADD & L. H ...

The US Energy Department, the University of Tulsa, and 14 private companies plan a $2.5 million study of wax accumulation in deepwater pipelines using a highly instrumented flow ...