Chinese wax

Waxes Beeswax, spermaceti, Chinese wax, lanolin (animal waxes) carnauba, candelilla, Japan wax, esparto (vegetable waxes) paraffin, ozokerite (fossil waxes) Paint binders, coatings, sealants, writing tablets, ingredients of cosmetic and pharmaceutical preparations, sculptures... 

Chinese wax is a white to yellowish-white, gelatinous, crystalline, water-insoluble substance obtained from the secretion of the scaled insect Coccus ceriferus, common in China and India. Chinese wax is used chiefly in the manufacture of polishes, sizes, and candles and is traditionally employed in Chinese medicine. It is basically made up of ceryl cerotate (esacosanoyl esacosanoate) and esacosanol [78,79]. 

A. Gascard, Ceryl alcohol and cerotic acid of Chinese wax, Comptes Rendue, 170, 1326 1328 (1920). 

Natural binders Paraffin wax, beeswax, carnauba wax, Chinese wax, boiled linseed oil, lithographic varnish, shellac and gum arabic etc. 

Others ore net with aa the ethereal salts of monacid alcohols. Titus spermaceti is cetylic palmitate, and Chinese wax eeryUo oerotste. 

Chinese Wax. The excretion of an insect. Coccus ceriferus Fabr., or C. pela Westwood, deposited on the twigs and branches of a species of ash tree in Western China. Chief constituent is ceryl cerotate. 

Pe-la, or Chinese Wax.— This material is formed upon the young branches of Ik axinua Chinensis or wax-tree, by an insect Coccus pe-la). After being scraped from the trees, the crude wax is cleansed from impurities by spreading it on a strainer, which covers a cylindrical vessel... 

Ceryl alcohol n. C26H53OH. Alcohol obtained from Chinese wax See image). 

Chinese wax An insect secretion, collected from certain evergreens, which are indigenous to China. Properties mp, 81°C Sp gr, 0.970 saponification value, 92 and a negligible iodine value. Known also as Insect Wax. 

Montanic acid n-octacosanoic acid, CH3-(CH2)2j-COOH, 424.73, m.p. 91 °C. Esterified M.a. is present in various waxes, e.g. montan wax, beeswax, Chinese wax. 

Chinese wax is used in perfumery and skin polishing. Japan wax is used for the manufacture of polishing creams for floors, footwear and furniture and for the manufacture of candles and matches and in the cosmetics industry. Jojoba oil is a liquid it is therefore used for the production of fat emulsions and moisturisers in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, as a carrier for speciality fragrances and as a lubricant for delicate mechanisms. It has also been considered as a low-energy replacement for edible fats. The wax prepared from the oil is used as a polishing wax, in the manufacture of carbon paper and linoleum. It also has a potential use as a biodiesel fuel. 

The chief waxes are wool wax, beeswax, spermaceti, Chinese wax, and carnauba wax. 

Chinese wax Ceroplastes ceriferus Ceryl lignocerate, montanyl lignocerate, melissyl lignocerate, ceryl cerotate, ceryl montanate. Candles, polishes, lubricant, Chinese traditional medicine... 

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