wax-like
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White phosphorus is a wax-like substance which ignites on contact with oxygen, creating bright plumes of smoke.
From BBC ● May 6, 2023
Back then, companies used wax-like finishes to keep water from soaking through their clothing.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Here we have mistletoe, and Jeanne watches her mother with a half-smile as she buys a great ball of dainty gray-green leaves and wax-like berries.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2012
It was apparent in the flicker of the wax-like eyelids; in the faintest of sighs from between the colourless lips.
From The Hound From The North by Charles Livingston Bull
Stearic acid, which reaches the trade in slab form, varies in quality from a soft brown, greasy, crumbly solid of unpleasant odor to a snow white, wax-like, hard, odorless mass.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen
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