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2. Microcrystalline wax - Wikipedia

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   The melted wax can be cast to make multiple copies that are further carved with details. Jewelry suppliers sell wax molded into the basic forms of rings as well as details that can be heat welded together and tubes and sheets for cutting and building the wax models. Rings may be attached to a wax "tree" so that many can be cast in one pouring.

3. Cosmoline - Wikipedia

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   Cosmoline is the genericized trademark for a common class of brown, wax-like petroleum-based corrosion inhibitors, typically conforming to United States Military Standard MIL-C-11796C Class 3. They are viscous when freshly applied, have a slight fluorescence , and solidify over time with exposure to air.

4. Turtle Wax - Wikipedia

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   Turtle Wax, Inc. (known simply as Turtle Wax) is an American manufacturer of automotive appearance (car care) products. The company was founded by Benjamin Hirsch in Chicago in 1941 [2] and is currently headquartered in Lombard, Illinois , having relocated from Addison, Illinois in 2024.

5. Wax On, Wax Off: The Best Car Wax for 2024, Tested - AOL

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   The Best Car Waxes Meguiar's Quik Wax. Meguiar's Quik Wax is popular with car enthusiasts for good reason—it worked well in our test. Of course, the performance aspect doesn't quite match the ...

6. Renaissance Wax - Wikipedia

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   Renaissance Wax is a brand of microcrystalline wax polish used in antique restoration and museum conservation around the world. Commonly used to polish and conserve metal objects, it is also used on gemstones and such organic materials as wood, ivory, and tortoiseshell. The product is sometimes used by reenactors to protect armor and weapons.

7. Bitumen - Wikipedia

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   Although uncompetitive economically, bitumen can be made from nonpetroleum-based renewable resources such as sugar, molasses and rice, corn and potato starches. Bitumen can also be made from waste material by fractional distillation of used motor oil, which is sometimes otherwise disposed of by burning or dumping into landfills. Use of motor ...

8. Spermaceti - Wikipedia

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   This was the most valuable product - an oil that remained liquid in freezing winter temperatures. Later, during the warmer seasons, the leftover solid was allowed to partially melt, and the liquid was strained off to leave a fully solid wax. This wax, brown in color, was then bleached and sold as "spermaceti wax".

9. Carnauba wax - Wikipedia

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   Carnauba wax. Carnauba (/ k ɑːr ˈ n ɔː b ə,-ˈ n aʊ-,-ˈ n uː-,-n ɑː ˈ uː-/; Portuguese: carnaúba [kaʁnaˈubɐ]), also called Brazil wax and palm wax, is a wax of the leaves of the carnauba palm Copernicia prunifera (synonym: Copernicia cerifera), a plant native to and grown only in the northeastern Brazilian states of Ceará, Piauí, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte ...