Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. organic material
7. wax
8. [wax by composition or origin]
9. mineral wax

Narrower term/s

• ceresin

Anotations

Scope note:

Light yellow to dark brown waxy mixture of paraffinic hydrocarbons found in rocks in Utah, Galicia, Australia, and Romania near the Caspian Sea. It is used as a substitute for beeswax and carnauba wax in polishes, candles, printing inks, crayons, sealing waxes, phonograph records, and insulation. It is also used for leather polish, lithographic and printing inks, carbon paper, floor polishes, waxed paper, and textile sizing. For ozorite that has been purified by boiling and alkali treatments, use "ceresin."