PROPERTIES OF COMMON WAXES

Specific
Refractive
Setting
Melting
Saponi-
Iodine
Add
Per cent of

Wax
Source
gravity
index
point
point
fication
number
number
alcohols and

iflifC.

°C.
°C.
number

hydrocarbons

Beeswax
Apis mellifica
0.962-0.966
1.440/75°
6o°-630
6fl*
88-97
8-n
16-21
52-56

Chinese insect wax
Coccus ceriferus
0,970
—
8o°-8i°
8o°-83°
80-93
1-2
1-1.5
49-50

Candelilla wax
Pedilanthus pavanis
0.950-0.990
1.456/71°
63°-68°
67>°
5°^5
15-20
12-20
65-75

Carnauba wax
Corypha cerjfera
0.990-0,999
1,472/40°
8o°-87°
83°-86°
79-88
13-iM
0,4-7.0
54-55

Montan wax
Lignite and peat
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76°-i3o0
74-127
16-20
30-70
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