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Definition of Mineral oil
1. Noun. A distillate of petroleum (especially one used medicinally as a laxative or stool softener).
Definition of Mineral oil
1. Noun. any mixture of aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons derived from petroleum used for very many applications, but not as a fuel ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Mineral oil
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mineral Oil
Literary usage of Mineral oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"... sulphuric acid for five minutes and then pours into several volumes of cold
water. mineral oil gives a white milky liquid which separates into two clear ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1869)
"mineral oil. Petroleum has proceeded from the decomposition of vegetable or animal
... mineral oil."
3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"G.—mineral oil. mineral oil, or Petroleum, is a bituminous liquid resulting from
the decomposition of marine or land plants (mainly the latter), ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"It is: "Is petroleum or mineral oil within the meaning of the term 'mineral' aa
it was need ... Petroleum has long been popularly regarded as a mineral oil. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Hence petroleum, to be as cheap as coal, must not cost more than about a halfpenny
a gallon. Cheap as mineral oil is nowadays, it has not yet come down to ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"That said defendant AY Chrisman never at any time discovered a seepage of petroleum
or other mineral oil upon said land or any part thereof, ..."
7. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1883)
"THE following procedure in estimating mineral oil when mixed with vegetable or
animal oils, ... The ether dissolves out the mineral oil from the soap, ..."
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