Physical and chemical properties of wax. Colour of wax. For building of the nest consisting from sotov, bees in wax glands develop wax. Being allocated from an organism of a bee in the liquid state, it stiffens on wax pocket mirrors a kind of plates. Wax just allocated with bees has white colour, further it gets yellow colouring which to it give various propolisovidnye substances.

At processing of wax raw materials colour of received wax depends on quality and a way of its processing. If melt svezheotstroennye honeycombs receive light yellow wax, from dark sotov melt dark yellow and brown wax. From a strong overheat or contact with metals (ware) at a refire chamber wax darkens. Colour of wax and from impurity of pollen, propolis etc. changes.

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