Petrolatum: alternatives and connections

A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are convert…

To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for clean…

An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running wat…

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether…

A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer con…

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous.

To divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.

The substance extracted by distilling.

A linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric, finer and lighter than canvas, -- used for the lighter sails of vessels, the sacking of beds, an…

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid…

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; --…

A neutral organic substance found in the root of the elecampane (Inula helenium), and extracted as a white crystalline or oily materia…

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to wh…

A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air…

An alkaloid found with hyoscyamine (with which it is also isomeric) in henbane, and extracted as a white, amorphous, semisolid substan…