What is mineral oil made from? What minerals are in it?
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Mineral oil or liquid petrolatum is a by-product in the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline. It is a chemically inert, transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes and cyclic paraffins, related to white petrolatum. Mineral oil is a substance of relatively low value, and it is produced in very large quantities. Mineral oil is available in light and heavy grades, and can often be found in drug stores
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omega 3- Walnuts, flaxseed oil, and canola oil\nomega 6- Corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, and sunflower oil
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. Most "baby oils" are primarily made of mineral oil. To make mineral oil, gasoline and kerosene are removed from crude petroleum by heating, in a method call functional distillation. By using sulfuric acid, applying absorbents, and washing with solvents and alkalis, hydrocarbons and other chemicals are then removed.
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Oil comes from the remnants of single celled marine life, not dinosaurs.
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Oil is not really from dinosaurs themselves, its from that period in time.  Its actually plant matter compressed over time underground with extreme pressure and heat causing it to turn into the oil we see.\n\nCheck out this site to learn more about oil and how it was created.\n\nhttp://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/n_renew/oil.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neem_oil\nthere ya go..
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Olive Oil is made up of 80% of monounsaturated acid fats that resist to oxidation more than the polyunsaturated and contribute in keeping high the level of HDL ( the "good" cholesterol) and low the level of LDL (the "bad" cholesterol). \n\nOnly a very small part of olive oil, from 4 to 12 percent, is made up of polyunsaturated acids, whose oxidation can harden the walls of the arteries. \n\nThere are two other essential elements: E vitamin and the poliphenols. Acting in synergy these elements can reduce the risk of some forms of tumors.
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Oil is formed by the compression of many types of matter over several millions of years. It is ultimatly rocks, fossils, plants, and microorganisms which have been compressed and over several thousends of years have reacted with each other to form oil.\n\nI suspect that the middle east is the larged oil resource because it is the easiest place to dig for these fossils. That area of the world is very 'dense' landwise which contributes as well. There are indeed more reason to this as well, but I'm not 100% sure on anything else!
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Yeah.....oil is oil, it all mixes
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(1) The natural elements are the elements which nature makes. They are:\na) Minerals \nb) Calcite .\nc) Halogens, \nd) Noble gases \n\nThe natural elements are produced by the nature with the help of a natural process. They have very long lives and they are stable. \n\n\n(2) Man-made elements are called synthetic elements and they are made by people. They are;\na) Steel \nb) Plastics \nc) Ceramics \nd) Adhesives.\n\nThe synthetic elements are produced in laboratories and with the help of  radioactive process. They have very short lives . They are unstable.
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gasoline\nkerosene\njet fuel\nasphalt\nwaxes & paraffin\nmotor/ lubricating oil\nplastics\nresins\npaint thinner & paints\nMTBE - a gasoline oxygenate\nmakeup \nvaseline\nfood preservatives and additives\ncarbon black for tires\ncrude oil contains natural gas liquids - propane, butane...\ndiamondoids\npesticides\nfertilizer\n\noil is one of the most versatile natural resources on the planet.
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Coal, oil and natural gas.  Hydrocarbon substances that were supposed to have been created from the natural decay of prehistoric organisms, including dinosaurs and plants.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubricating_oil
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Motor oil, olive oil and water.
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ORIGIN AND FORMATION:\n\n Crude oil is formed from accumulations of small organisms, mostly phytoplankton and zooplanton that are buried in sediments in both marine and lacustrine (fresh water) environments. Other organic material is mixed in such as spores, pollen, woody material, and other material such as fecal pellets from marine organisms. These materials often settle through the water into an organic-rich mud that is very low in oxygen (anaerobic) so there are few organisms to feed on the material and it accumulates over long periods of time. Rivers contribute to this process by both delivering large quantities of organic matter, and also large amounts of sediment to bury this organic matter.\n\nOver time these clay-rich sediments are buried under thousands of feet of sediments, dewatered by pressure from the overlying sediment and become shale. As the shale is buried its temperature increases due to geothermal warming. When it reaches temperatures and pressures of 140 degrees F. (60 C) it begins to convert to oil. As temperature increases from continuing burial processes it reachs a temperature where it begins to form natural gas. Both the oil and the gas are gradually expelled from the shale. Typically shales are found in depositional settings where they may be interbedded with sandstones. Sandstones will have higher porosity (more and bigger holes) than shale and the oil and gas will displace salt water that is remaining in the sandstones. Eventually the oil and gas migrates upward through the water and if the overlying structure has formed some sort of a trapping configuration, (like a sandstone overlain by an impervious shale, or a fault that has created a seal against the sandstone, then this becomes an oil reservoir.\n\nA very similar process occurs in carbonate rocks, like limestone and dolomite, except the organic material originates within the carbonate rock in many instances. If the carbonate reef (for example) has been buried by an impervious layer of shale or carbonate mud of a sabkha, it will become an oil reservoir. In other instances, the source of the oil will be a shale that is below the carbonate rocks, and the oil will migrate upward into this reservoir.\n\n\nReference: John M Hunt, 1996, "Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology", W.H. Freeman & Co: New York. 743 pp. \n\n                                  COMPOSITION:\nCrude oil is a complex mixture of many different hydrocarbon compounds and also may contain sulphur and trace amounts of heavy metals. Because of this, different reservoirs of oil can be distinguished and identified using gas chromatography and other methods. It is even possible to identify particles of the original organisms and plant remains under a microscope in some crude oil. The list of hydrocarbon compounds found in crude oil numbers in the hundreds, but here is a list of the most common:\nParaffins:\n  Pentane\n  Hexane\n  Octane\n  Nonane\n  Decane\n\nBranched chain paraffins:\n  2-Methylpentane\n  3- Methylpentane\n  2-Methylhexane\n  3-Methylhexane\n  2-Methylheptane\n  Pristane\n \nCycloparaffins:\n  Methlycyclopentane\n  Cyclohexane\n  Methylcyclohexane\n  1,2-Dimethylcyclopentane\n  1,3- Dimethylcyclopentane\n  1,3-dimethylcyclohexane\n\nAromatics:\n  Benzene\n  Toluene\n  Ethylbenzene\n  m-Xylene\n\nOr described by molecular size, using a common crude oil for an example:\n  Gasoline (C5-C10)  27%\n  Kerosine (C11-C13) 13%\n  Diesel fuel (C14-C18) 12%\n  Heavy gas oil (C19-C25)10%\n  Lubricating oil (C26-C40)20%\n  Residuum(>C40)                   18% \n\nThere is an interesting thing about biomarkers in oil. There are petroleum reservoirs offshore West Africa, and offshore Brazil, that came from the same source of oil, showing that the oil formed before Africa and South America were separated by the Atlantic Ocean.
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I can't remember the mineral, it is there in my small little brain but I can't find it at the moment. Any way, the mineral is mixed with corn starch and formed into sticks under pressure. The corn starch prevents the powdering that causes chalk dust, but is still soft enough to allow the chalk to write on slate, etc.
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Mineral oil SHOULD NOT be used if you have a colostomy or an ileostomy, think you have appendicitis, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, dysphagia or hiatal hernia.\n\nMineral oil may impair absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, oral contraceptives, and coumarin.