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The term "mineral oil" is a historical one. Mineral oil is used to distinguish oily substances that came out of the ground from oily substances that are derived from plants or animals. The "mineral" in this case is petroleum, the substance from which mineral oil is derived. (Petroleum simply means "stone oil" in Greek).
Mineral oil is mainly a mixture of alkane hydrocarbons. If that sounds a lot like gasoline, it is ... mineral oil is a "heavier" fraction of the distillation (C15-C40 compared to gasoline's C4-C12 or so), and petrolatum (petroleum jelly, "Vaseline") is a still heavier one (starting at about C25).
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∙ 15y agoMINERAL OIL containes carbon, hydorgen, and oxygen atoms.This smart was contributed by Allison.
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