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Paraffinic Mineral Oil
« on: March 26, 2008, 04:08:50 AM »
I appreciate further explanation on this topic:  Paraffinic Mineral oil. What carbon number range are there in the mineral oil? I would like also to know some additional reads on 'Petroleum Distillates hydrotreated middle', why is this product called as such and how it is processed.
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Re: Paraffinic Mineral Oil
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 04:26:50 AM »
And we would like you to read forum rules. Googling for Paraffinic Mineral Oil gives 1,830,000 hits - have you tried to read at least one of them?
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Re: Paraffinic Mineral Oil
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 04:32:10 AM »
Thanks. I've read some, but haven't hit the information I was looking for.  ???
I was looking for the carbon number ranges of mineral oil and the other inquiry.

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Re: Paraffinic Mineral Oil
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 06:50:10 AM »
As I understand it, lower boiling fractions, like natural gas, gasoline*, kerosene, diesel fuel, and maybe some others, have a simple range of hydrocarbons, some with a few branches in their composition. 

But higher boiling fractions, become very complicated, very quickly, with multiple branches, and aliphatic and aromatic rings.  You won't succeed in attempting to apply the same rules to the latter group as was applied to the first group.

*When I say gasoline, I mean the fraction of crude oil distillation called gasoline, basically hexanes through octanes, not the stuff that goes in an automobiles gas tank, which is a diverse mixture with a variety of properties.
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