Abraham Gessner, a Canadian geologist, first distilled kerosene from coal in 1846. Kerosene, also called paraffin or paraffin oil, is a flammable and clear liquid that is distilled from oil. It is a mixture of different hydrocarbons and is less volatile than gasoline.

Paraffin oil is not the same as liquid paraffin. Paraffin oil is a yellow or clear colorless liquid, often known as mineral oil. This substance is colorless and odorless and is obtained from the distillation of crude oil. Paraffin oil is divided into two types, light and general, which have a low viscosity ratio of light mineral oil. Paraffin oil does not contain aromatic hydrocarbons and environmental protection. This product is marketed in pharmaceutical or health, food or edible and industrial grades and has various uses. Industrial-grade paraffin oil does not pollute the environment.

This product is marketed in the pharmaceutical, food, rubber, and plastic industries, cosmetics, and health industries and has various applications. Paraffin oil does not contain aromatic hydrocarbons and environmental protection. It does not pollute the environment in industrial applications.

What is Paraffin?

Paraffin is a saturated hydrocarbon compound in which all carbon atoms are connected to each other with simple bonds and other bonds are saturated with hydrogen atoms.  Kinds of paraffin or paraffinic hydrocarbons are also called alkanes. This material are the main components of natural gas and oil. Paraffin has the chemical formula CnH2n+2, where the letter C is a carbon atom, H is a hydrogen atom, and n is an integer. Paraffin is obtained from petroleum derivatives. This petroleum composition exists in two forms, liquid and solid.

The cost of producing paraffin was high, but when new sources of paraffin and cheaper methods of refining were discovered, the price of the fuel changed dramatically and came down. Paraffin retains a lot of heat.

Types of Paraffin

• liquid paraffin
• Solid paraffin

History of Paraffin

Paraffin wax was first discovered in 1830 by Carl von Reichenbach, a German chemist. He tried to produce a device that can be used to separate and purify the waxy substances that are naturally present in oil.