Hyphenation of paraffins

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word paraffins? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

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Definitions of paraffins:

1.	From crude petroleum Used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
2.	A series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
3.	(British usage) kerosine

Last hyphenations of this language

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