What is paraffin oil?

Paraffin oil is a mineral wax and petroleum wax. Paraffin oil can be obtained from distillate of crude oil distillation by solvent refining, solvent dewaxing, wax freezing crystallization and pressure dewaxing, and then flake and needle crystals can be obtained by solvent deoiling and refining. Paraffin oil, also called crystalline wax, is a mixture of hydrocarbons with 18 to 30 carbon atoms. The main components are linear alkanes (80% to 95%), and a small amount of alkanes with single branch chains and monocyclic alkanes with long side chains (the total content of both is less than 20%).