montan wax

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   a hard wax obtained from lignite

   Broaderwax

Questions about montan wax

What does montan wax mean?

montan wax means "a hard wax obtained from lignite".

Is montan wax a common word?

montan wax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.