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06-11-2014, 12:52 PM

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Jamesbeat

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Originally Posted by Sunflowerzz

"Wikipedia"

("Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum-based products from crude oil. A mineral oil in this sense is a transparent, colorless oil composed mainly of alkanes [SUP][2][/SUP] and cyclic paraffins, related to petroleum jelly (also known as "white petrolatum").

I don't think you will ever get far away from a petroleum product.

'Petroleum product' is a pretty broad term.
Don't get your Vaseline mixed up with your gasoline!

Greases (at least conventional ones) are a mixture of an oil (usually petroleum) and a soap (often lithium). It would be interesting to see exactly what the Singer grease is, or even if it's not actually a grease (like petroleum jelly for instance).

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