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Answer for the clue "Shine producers ", 5 letters:
waxes

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n. (plural of wax English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: wax )

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lipid \lip"id\ n. [Gr. li`pos fat.] (Chem., Biochem.) Any of a variety of oily or greasy organic compounds found as major structural components of living cells; they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol and ether, and include ...

Usage examples of waxes.

Candles can be and have been made of beeswax, tallow from animal fat, spermaceti from the sperm whale, waxes from various plants, paraffin wax derived from petroleum, and combinations of these things.

Sorrow waxes heavy within meI fear that a Leaving such as this will herald the final days of the Talith.

At the beginning of time the Universe was endowed with a certain fund of both, which neither waxes nor wanes with time, but is merely exchanged among bodies, like silver pennies in a market-place.