Editing Beeswax (section)

==Physical characteristics==
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!Wax content type||Percentage
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|[[Hydrocarbon]]s||14
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Mono[[ester]]s||35
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Diesters||14
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Triesters||3
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Hydroxy monoesters||4
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Hydroxy polyesters||8
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Acid [[ester]]s ||1
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Acid [[polyester]]s||2
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|[[Fatty acid|Free fatty acid]]s||12
|-
| style="background:gainsboro;"|[[Fatty alcohol|Free fatty alcohol]]s ||1
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| style="background:gainsboro;"|Unidentified||6
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Beeswax is a fragrant solid at room temperature. The colors are light yellow, medium yellow, or dark brown and white. Beeswax is a tough [[wax]] formed from a mixture of several [[chemical compound]]s.

Beeswax has a relatively low [[melting point]] range of {{convert|62|to|64|C|F}}. If beeswax is heated above {{convert|85|°C|°F|abbr=on}} discoloration occurs. The [[flash point]] of beeswax is {{convert|204.4|°C|°F|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fscimage.fishersci.com/msds/02556.htm|title=MSDS for beeswax}}. No reported [[autoignition temperature]] has been reported</ref>

When natural beeswax is cold,{{clarify|reason=how cold is cold?|date=January 2019}} it is brittle, and its fracture is dry and granular. At [[room temperature]] (conventionally taken as about {{convert|20|°C|°F|abbr=on}}), it is tenacious and it softens further at human [[body temperature]] ({{convert|37|°C|°F|abbr=on}}).