Since spermaceti is hard to come by now, Lawson--the race's official "dope man"--uses paraffin.
Last winter, aid agencies started providing other fuel, such as coal and paraffin, for destitute families.
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He envisages buying soap and paraffin in the nearest town and selling it in the village.
In the hardware store, he found a paraffin stove, and took it home with a tin of fuel.
Some stand a metre and a half from base to wick, their white paraffin wax decorated with religious symbols.
The main cause is that Zimbabwe has been selling imported petrol, diesel and paraffin at below cost for the past two years.
How about a WD-40 grease gun, or paraffin lube stick for windows, or lithium spray grease or two-stroke oil for your chain saw?
Kagwanja says rural Zimbabweans are no longer able to get anything that comes from outside the country, such as paraffin, gasoline, and medicine.
Most of today's modern candles are made by machines that pour paraffin and stearic acid into molds, although handmade candles are still popular.
Government grants were inadequate in the face of "the astronomical increase of the cost of living, particularly food prices and prices of paraffin", he added.
If its novel idea works, solar power will come within reach of a whole new set of customers and the days of the paraffin lamp could well be numbered.
The glow of Mombasa fades into the night behind us as our train clatters past derelict signal boxes and a decaying station lit by the feeble light of a paraffin lamp.
He agreed that the device did not explode owing to a defect in the timing unit and an error in the mix of paraffin and diesel fuel contained in the cylinders.
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