Wax
An ester-based solid of plant or animal origin, plastic at room temperature and melting above about forty degrees Celsius.
How it connects
Wax is a kind of Natural organic.
Other kinds of Natural organic: Cane, Cellulose, Cork, Grass, Leather, Natural fibre, Natural resin, Palm, Plant oil, Seagrass, Shell and Tall oil.
In other taxonomies
- waxWikidata, Q124695theirs is wider
- Uniclassno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
Wax
13 terms, Natural fibre to Tall oil
Record
- Broader
- Natural organic
- Provenance
- authoredcomposition dictionary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05); in-house definition
For machines
Permanent address
/id/material/waxKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- has-conceptMaterialincoming
- narrowerNatural organicincoming
- belongs-to-axisMaterialoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetMaterialoutgoing
- broaderNatural organicoutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Natural organicoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Caneoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Celluloseoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Corkoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Grassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Leatheroutgoing
- sibling (derived)Natural fibreoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Natural resinoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Palmoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Plant oiloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Seagrassoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Shelloutgoing
- sibling (derived)Tall oiloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Q124695 | wax | theirs is wider |
| Uniclass | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026Wax | wax via https://uniclass.thenbs.com/download | none |