Mineral oil
SIAL/M3516 - suitable for preparation of Nujol mulls for infrared spectroscopy, light oil
Synonym: White mineral oil (petroleum)
CAS Number: 8042-47-5
EC Number: 232-455-8
MDL Number: MFCD00131611
Product Type: Chemical
| density | 0.84 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.) |
| form | light oil |
| InChI key | AEOVEGJBKQQFOP-DDVLFWKVSA |
| Quality Level | 200  |
| refractive index | n |
| suitability | suitable for preparation of Nujol mulls for infrared spectroscopy |
| technique(s) | PCR: suitable |
| Application: | Mineral oil has been used: • to overlay the samples to avoid evaporation in denaturing gel PCR reaction mix • in emulsion preparation for emulsion PCR |
| General description: | Mineral oils are complex mixtures of straight and branched chain paraffinic, naphthenic and aromatic hydrocarbons refined from petroleum crude oils. Mineral oil with a carbon number of 15 to 25 is categorized as light oil and 25 to 50 as heavy oil. Mineral oil is commonly used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries especially in skin care products. Mineral oil is used as overlaying agent in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and electrophoretic techniques to avoid evaporation. |
| Packaging: | 1, 4 L in poly bottle |
| Packaging: | 12×6 mL in poly bottle |
| Packaging: | 20 L in steel drum |
| Packaging: | 6 mL size is supplied in plastic dropper bottle. |
| RIDADR | NONH for all modes of transport |
| WGK Germany | WGK 1 |
| Flash Point(F) | No data available |
| Flash Point(C) | No data available |
| Density | 0.84 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.) |
| Refractive Index | n |
| UNSPSC | 12352211 |