mineral oil Label

DefGEMET: Oil which derives from petroleum and is made up of hydrocarbons. (Source: PHC)

The name mineral oil by itself is imprecise, having been used for many specific oils over the past few centuries. Other names, similarly imprecise, include white oil, paraffin oil, liquid paraffin (a highly refined medical grade), paraffinum liquidum (Latin), and liquid petroleum. Baby oil is a perfumed mineral oil.

... Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products. This type of mineral oil is a transparent, colorless oil, composed mainly of alkanes and cycloalkanes, related to petroleum jelly ... (Wikipedia contributors. (2018, May 3). Mineral oil. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11:07, May 18, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mineral_oil&oldid=839456044)