paraffin

英 ['pærəfɪn] 美 ['pærəfɪn]

解释

※ 提供单词"paraffin"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

paraffin 石蜡，煤油

来自拉丁语parum,一点点，不多，来自PIE*pau,少的，词源同few,poor.-affin,相似，词源同affinity,finite.来自该物质发明者19世纪德国化学家Karl von Reichenbach根据拉丁语创造出来的一个词，因石蜡与蜂蜡有一点相似而得名，后也用于指煤油。

paraffin: paraffin: [19] The term paraffin was coined in German around 1830 by the chemist Reichenbach. It was formed from Latin parum ‘little’ and affinis ‘related’ (source of English affinity), an allusion to the fact that paraffin is not closely related chemically to any other substance. The word is first recorded in English in 1838.
=> affinity, fine
paraffin (n.): 1838, from German Paraffin, coined c. 1830 by German chemist Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869), who first obtained it as a waxy substance from wood tar, irregularly from Latin parum "not very, too little," probably related to parvus "little, small" (see parvi-) + affinis "associated with" (see affinity).

So called because paraffin is chemically not closely related to other substances. The liquid form (originally parafin oil) Reichenbach called eupion, but this was the standard meaning of paraffin in English by 1860.

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2. He took the paraffin stove on a picnic and the ruddy thing wouldn't work.: 他带了那个煤油炉去野餐，但是那个该死的东西根本用不了。

3. Paraffin waxes are normally marketed on the basis of a melting - point test.: 石腊一般按其熔点不同在市场上分类出售.