Paraffin wax

Paraffin wax

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Paraffin wax and microcrystalline wax are obtained from petroleum materials. These types of waxes can be recovered and presented in a wide range of desired physical characteristics. Most manufacturers offer two distinct types of petroleum waxes: paraffins, which are characterized by coarse, formed crystals. and microcrystallines, which are waxes with higher melting point and irregular and small crystals. Microcrystalline wax contains significant branched and rotary ratios of saturated hydrocarbons as well as normal alkanes.

Wax manufacturers also divide waxes according to purity percentage. Fully-refined paraffin wax has an oil percentage of less than 0.5%, and fully refined microcrystalline wax has an oil percentage of less than 0.3%. Also, "Slack Wax", which is the raw material for the production of paraffin, has a weight percentage of 3% to more than 35% of oil. Paraffin wax produced from petroleum materials is necessarily a mixture of normal alkanes and isoalkanes without esters, acids, etc., which are found in animal waxes and vegetable base waxes.