Mineral oil, also called heavy or light paraffin white Jelly oil, or simply transformer oil, is a colorless and odorless light mixture of higher alkenes from distillate of petroleum. It is also called liquid paraffin, pariffium liquidum or liquid petroleum and used medicinally and popularly in the plastic industries.
Importantly, mineral white paraffin oil is use in a variety of industrial/mechanical capacities as a non-conductive coolant or thermal fluid in electrical components such as transformer as it does not conduct electricity.
As transformer oil, it is use as an insulator and as a coolant to disperse switching arcs. Electric space heater use mineral oil as a heat transfer oil, where it is also use as hydraulic fluid in hydraulic machinery and vehicles.
Apart from its industrial uses, mineral oil is also use in biomedicine, veterinary, cosmetics and in food preparation. It has attracted many miscellaneous uses such as in scented candle manufacturing, removal of paper labels from products, removal of ear wax, horticulture and anti-rust for blade among many others.
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