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Oil will slide off of or pool on wax paper. This is because the paper is coated with paraffin wax and is waterproof.

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When I did that experiment at school, the cooking oil was damp where the cooking oil dropped. Surface tension of capillary action has something do with that.

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Q: What happens when oil is on wax paper?
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