Drexel University researchers have made a discovery that could create roads that melt off ice and snow during winter storms. Their secret? — Adding a little paraffin wax to the road’s concrete mix.

Researchers have made a discovery that could create roads that melt off ice and snow during winter storms. Their secret? Adding a little paraffin wax to the road's concrete mix. Drexel University ...

MANY and very various products can be obtained by the carbonisation of bituminous minerals, the character and quality of the materials produced depending mainly upon the temperature at which the ...

Paraffin is omnipresent in our everyday lives: it is used in the waxes covering cheeses, in chewing gum, in skincare products and candles among others. It is transported as a liquid in heated tankers.

THE PRODUCTION OF LIGHT OILS FROM NATURAL GAS. NATURAL gas may be of two distinct types—dry gas or wet gas. The former consists essentially of methane, with practically no other members of the ...

The retail price of petrol is to remain the same while that of diesel and illuminating paraffin is to increase slightly, the department of minerals and energy said on Friday. It said the price of ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 271, No. 1344 (Jan. 1, 1963), pp. 34-43 (10 pages) A reaction scheme analogous to that used for the ...