For this reason, praseodymium is usually stored under a light mineral oil or sealed in glass.

Light mineral oil is also used in textile industries and used as a jute batching oil.

NaK is not dense enough to sink in most hydrocarbons, but will sink in lighter mineral oil.

To make your own gentle abrasive, mix cigarette ashes to a paste with a few drops of vegetable oil, light mineral oil, or linseed oil.

Specol (trade name Stimune) is a water in oil adjuvant composed of defined and purified light mineral oil (Stills.

Most commonly, teams now use specifically prepared liquid dyes and only gas oil, light mineral oil or a food grade white oil without harmful chlorinated solvents.

Instead, a novel emulsion formulation: 4% Abil EM90 / light mineral oil was developed and demonstrated to be functional in expressing luciferase and human telomerase.

Using light mineral oil, the facility allows researchers to use fused quartz models built to scale to study the flow of liquids inside and around objects with complicated geometries, such as the core of a nuclear reactor.

Pipettes were polished to a resistance of 0.3-1 MΩ and immediately before use were dipped in a seal glue composed of one part light mineral oil, one part heavy mineral oil, and 10% parafilm beads to promote formation of high-resistance seals [ 36 ] .