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petroleum jelly
Sign in to saveAlso known as petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin, multi-hydrocarbon, rod oil, rod wax
chemical substance used as lubricating agent
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 419 inbound references to petroleum jelly, and connects out to route of administration, topical medication and emulsion.
It sits within the topics American inventions, Amorphous solids and Cosmetics chemicals.
Vinony links it to 48 Wikipedia language editions.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mixture
- Said to be same as
- vaseline
- Has parts of class
- higher alkanes
Show 3 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Petroleum jelly
- different from
- vaseline
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Encyclopedic overview
Petroleum jelly
Petroleum jelly, petrolatum (/ˌpɛtrəˈleɪtəm/), white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number 8009-03-8, is a semi-solid mixture of hydrocarbons (with carbon numbers mainly higher than 25), commonly promoted as a topical ointment for its healing properties. Vaseline has been the dominant brand of petroleum jelly sold since 1870.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “petroleum jelly” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.