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How is wax obtained?

Many fruits, vegetables, and leaves have a thin, protective coating of wax. Wax is also produced by animals. It can be found in minerals and oil. There is also a synthetic, man-made wax.

As you can see, we get wax from many sources. Carnauba wax is extracted from the leaves of the carnauba palm in Brazil. It is hard and gives excellent results on floors and furniture. Candelilla wax, obtained from a plant of the same name in Mexico and the southwestern United States, is brown in color. It is used in photography, flooring, and candle making.

Bees produce wax to build honeycombs. Humans use beeswax to make beauty products, church candles, crayons, and artificial flowers. Lanolin, animal wax, is obtained by washing the wool of sheep with further purification. It is used as a base for ointments, cosmetic creams and soaps.

Over 90 percent of all industrial wax in use today is derived from petroleum. This wax has found wide application because it is odorless, tasteless, chemically inactive, inert, that is, does not react with other substances. The hard wax obtained from petroleum is called paraffin.

The main use of paraffin is coating for paper products. Soft wax of petroleum origin is used for medical purposes. Chemical waxes are compounds of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and sometimes chlorine. They all have their purpose.

Author: Likum A.

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