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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 23154, member: 25"]That is what we call in Britain 'liquid paraffin'. As a child I was dosed with it occasionally, possibly just on general principles. I have never heard of applying it to furniture but as far as I know it did me no great harm. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found the name puzzling (like so much else) because we used paraffin in a heater and Primus stoves and blow lamps and it did not smell the same at all. Generally that paraffin was not considered drinkable or medicinal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 23154, member: 25"]That is what we call in Britain 'liquid paraffin'. As a child I was dosed with it occasionally, possibly just on general principles. I have never heard of applying it to furniture but as far as I know it did me no great harm. I found the name puzzling (like so much else) because we used paraffin in a heater and Primus stoves and blow lamps and it did not smell the same at all. Generally that paraffin was not considered drinkable or medicinal.[/QUOTE]
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