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.

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.

Small pieces of thin vulcanized natural rubber latex are used as the stationary phase, and a light paraffin hydrocarbon as the mobile phase. Nature - Liquid Chromatographic Separation of Mixtures ...

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, ...