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IN spite of the absence of polar groups in the paraffin molecule, oriented overgrowth of the crystals of paraffin wax can be readily obtained not only on ionic substrates such as sodium chloride and lithium chloride and on substrates with polar groups such as chloranil and anthraquinone but also on crystals of aromatic hydrocarbons ; for example, anthracene and phenanthrene1. R. B. Richards2 even obtained oriented overgrowth of paraffin wax crystals on the surface of strips of cold-drawn polyethylene.
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WILLEMS, J., WILLEMS, I. Oriented Overgrowth of Paraffin Wax Crystals on Spherulites of Polyethylene. Nature 178, 429–430 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178429a0
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