In message <199412020048.TAA04925@transfer.stratus.com> "Russell G. Dushin" 
writes:
> 
> I then spoke with an information specialist here at work...a library
> dude.  He said that the composition was probably a trade secret, and
> suggested the best he or I would come up with would be to find out
> who makes the stuff...and we already know that.  He then went on to
> tell a story about his grad school advisor that got so hung up on
> the composition of a gas additive (that he couldn't find out from
> the patent literature) that he had one of his students inject the 
> stuff into a gc.....they basically watched peak after peak come
> off for the rest of the day.  I don't think I'll be injecting
> any waxoyl into my gc.
> 
> 
> rd/nigel
> 
> 

So contact Moss and ask for a MSDS for Waxol.  You might get some better hints 
as to what's inside, if you can use it as a gravy thickner or hair wax.

TeriAnn Wakeman        Large format photographers look at the world
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