noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oil/kerosene/paraffin lamp (= lamps that you light with a flame )
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The large room was lit by a paraffin lamp on a table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
lamp
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The room was lit by candles, as Rose disliked the smell of his paraffin lamp .
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Also we stopped using our little paraffin lamp during the night watch, and used torches instead.
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Entering his room, he lit the paraffin lamp on the table by the door and carried it over to the desk.
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Their relatives carted away their bicycles and paraffin lamps .
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On entering his cabin, I saw that he had arranged a paraffin lamp somewhat precariously upon the side table.
oil
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Reek of paraffin oil and creosote Swabbing my lungs doctored me back Laid on a sack in the great-beamed engine-shed.
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Place each slide in a container of adequate depth and immerse the slide in liquid paraffin oil .
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There was no chimney attached to it; so she guessed it was for paraffin oil .
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Boot leathers are usually chrome tanned then impregnated with a mixture of paraffin wax and paraffin oil .
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Gas was also laid on to the clubhouse replacing paraffin oil for lighting.
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Sections are lapped using paraffin oil as a lubricant.
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They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished, using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant.
wax
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After being grafted, the joints are dipped into paraffin wax for protection.
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Boot leathers are usually chrome tanned then impregnated with a mixture of paraffin wax and paraffin oil.
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The biopsy specimens were fixed in Carnoy's fixative overnight and embedded in paraffin wax .
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Exposed surfaces of glass slides, especially the undersides, should be painted with paraffin wax before placing in the container.
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Twelve sections were cut from each formalin fixed paraffin wax embedded block at a thickness of 3 µm.
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Biopsy tissues were fixed in buffered formalin and processed routinely through paraffin wax , ensuring optimal orientation at the embedding stage.
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The specimens were fixed overnight in neutral buffered 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin wax .
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Leiden is very similar to Gouda and is generally sold in the same yellow paraffin wax coating.
■ VERB
embed
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Formalin-fixed tissues were embedded in paraffin .
use
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Sections are lapped using paraffin oil as a lubricant.
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Also we stopped using our little paraffin lamp during the night watch, and used torches instead.
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We used paraffin sections which may account for the 50% sensitivity that we found.
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This antibody can be used on paraffin embedded tissue.
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Comparison with the peroxidase labelled antibody sandwich method using formalin fixed paraffin embedded material.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After being grafted, the joints are dipped into paraffin wax for protection.
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Boot leathers are usually chrome tanned then impregnated with a mixture of paraffin wax and paraffin oil.
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Entering his room, he lit the paraffin lamp on the table by the door and carried it over to the desk.
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Placebo capsules contained liquid paraffin for adults and olive oil for children.
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To save paraffin we stopped having a mid-morning coffee break.
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Why, there are much larger ripples on the surface of the water, upon which the paraffin rests.