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Перевод: paraffin

[прилагательное]
парафиновый; керосиновый;
[существительное]
парафин ; керосин ; парафин торговый;
[глагол]
покрывать или пропитывать парафином

Тезаурус:

1. Dr James Young, an associate of Michael Faraday, first mined the shale in 1851 at Torbane and refined paraffin from it, and the discovery started a sort of gold rush to the Lothians, where many small firms rose and soon fell.
2. Highly-inflammable products (eg petrol, paraffin) must be kept in a "No smoking" zone.
3. Boot leathers are usually chrome tanned then impregnated with a mixture of paraffin wax and paraffin oil.
4. My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours - feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners; like the Races, one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin.
5. Back to that poky little shop, livin' off the takin's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil!"
6. Paraffin lamps cast pools of sputtering light on the wet streets.
7. Further timber was then heaped round the base, soaked in paraffin and then set alight.
8. Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match.
9. After being grafted, the joints are dipped into paraffin wax for protection.
10. Though never a gourmet, I appreciated also the food at Ika's home, as I found what was provided at the Cit Universitaire almost inedible, even accustomed as we in Britain were to such unappetising fare as powdered egg and cakes baked with liquid paraffin.
11. Apples, carrots, non-heating mix and a nightly bran mash with bonemeal and liquid paraffin was necessary as colic was a very real danger, and of course the three nightly visits.
12. The power unit for the Once-Over tractor unit was four cylinder water cooled engine which started on petrol and was switched over the paraffin after a warming-up period.
13. Sensitivity to oil fumes, coal smoke, paraffin fumes and other odours from heating systems can be tested for in the same way.