Definition of Chinese wax. Meaning of Chinese wax. Synonyms of Chinese wax

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Definition of Chinese wax

Chinese wax
Chinese Chi"nese", a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.

Meaning of Chinese wax from wikipedia

- Chinese wax, insect wax (Chinese: 蟲蠟), whitewax or pela (Chinese: 白蠟) is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline water-insoluble substance...
- Waxes are a diverse class of organic compounds that are lipophilic, malleable solids near ambient temperatures. They include higher alkanes and lipids...
- Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd, also called ash gourd, white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, Chinese preserving melon, is...
- dynasty (221–206 BCE). Chinese candles may be made from beeswax, or stillingia tallow from Chinese tallow tree, or Chinese wax derived from insects. While...
- A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited...
- Renaissance Wax is a brand of microcrystalline wax polish used in antique restoration and museum conservation around the world. Commonly used to polish...
- Lost-wax casting – also called investment casting, precision casting, or cire perdue (French: [siʁ pɛʁdy]; borrowed from French) – is the process by which...
- saturated fatty acid isolated and detected mainly in montan wax. It also occurs in beeswax and Chinese wax. Montanic acid ethylene glycol esters and glycerol esters...
- species in the genera Ceroplastes and Ericerus produce materials such as Chinese wax, and several genera of lac scales produce s****ac. Collecting scale insects...
- wall to dry and stretch before finishing by polishing the back with Chinese wax and ****ing the rod and roller at either end. This process is generally...