| From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2008, 14:06 |
I think you'll find that 'paraffin' is a coined word made up from 'PARva AFFINitas' (I think) relating to the particular carbon ring structure having only a small affinity with other molecules, parva being itself one of the latin words for 'small'. Mike