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Beeswax is a product from a bee hive. Beeswax is secreted by honeybees of a certain age in the form of thin scales. The scales are produced by glands of 12 to 17 days old worker bees on the ventral (stomach) surface of the abdomen. Worker bees have eight wax-producing glands on the inner sides of the sternites (the ventral shield or plate of each segment of the body). Wax is produced from abdominal segments 4 to 7. The size of these wax glands depends on the age of the worker.
Honeybees use the beeswax to build honey comb cells in which the young are raised and honey and pollen are stored. For the wax-making bees to secrete wax the ambient temperature in the hive has to be 33 to 36 °C (91 to 97 °F). Approximately eight pounds of honey is consumed by bees to produce one pound of beeswax (8 kg/kg). Estimates are that bees fly 150,000 miles to yield this one pound of beeswax (530,000 km/kg). When beekeepers go to extract the honey, they cut off the wax caps from each honeycomb cell. Its color varies from yellowish-white to brownish depending on purity and the type of flowers gathered by the bees. Wax from the brood comb of the honeybee hive tends to be darker than wax from the honey comb. Impurities accumulate more quickly in the brood comb. Due to the impurities, the wax has to be rendered before further use. The leftovers are called slumgum.
The wax may further be clarified by heating in water and may then be used for candles or as a lubricant for drawers and windows or as a wood polish. As with petroleum waxes it may be softened by dilution with vegetable oil to make it more workable at room temperature, whence it may be used to create sculpture and jewelry models for use in the lost wax casting process.
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@amandapalmer It's not the safest, but it does help when you light lots of candles. Preferably paraffin, as it burns hotter than beeswax.
dellaleffler (Della Leffler) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:43:30 -0000
@amandapalmer It's not the safest, but it does help when you light lots of candles. Preferably paraffin, as it burns hotter than beeswax.
now all the bums is wonderin where i be's at u aint a freakin barbie it aint none of ur freakin beeswax...
shayperks (Shayla Perkins) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:40:19 -0000
now all the bums is wonderin where i be's at u aint a freakin barbie it aint none of ur freakin beeswax...
@NICKIMINAJ you not a Barbie ITS NONE OF YA FREAKIN BEESWAX!! and its really not so..
FiveStar_ (Jadee) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:24:08 -0000
@NICKIMINAJ you not a Barbie ITS NONE OF YA FREAKIN BEESWAX!! and its really not so..
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unlooses (unlooses) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:55:14 -0000
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Eating honey inside the beeswax
angelinecallist (Angeline Callista) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:10:57 -0000
Eating honey inside the beeswax
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Dirrty_fighter (Jhante Curtis) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:02:20 -0000
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