Marc Joliet wrote: > I wasn't sure what he meant, either, although looking it up, it seems > that the term "mineral oil" basically means "a petroleum based oil". > In fact, according to Wikipedia [0], that holds even for the food > product "mineral oil" - which, according to the same article (see > "Food preparation"), is forbidden in the EU (at least in food > products). However, in medical products mineral oil is apparently held > to strict standards and translates to "Weißöl". So it seems your baby > oil is fine, but the cooking oil I'm not so sure about. (And here I > thought mineral oil was something akin to vegetable oil and that it > just had a weird name.) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_oil
I just looked at the bottle I use. ;-) The only ingredients is mineral oil and fragrance. I wouldn't put that in a computer but you can buy pure mineral oil off the internet. I don't like the smell anyway. lol I have also seen it on the shelf as a laxative too. I've never used it for that either. I just know it helps keep my skin from drying out since I have severe psoriasis among other issues. I wouldn't cook with mineral oil tho. Yikes. lol That even sounds nasty there. I'm not sure I would put cooking oil in a puter either tho it may work. I dunno about that tho. I just remember them using mineral oil in those very expensive undersea robots. Some of those cost millions of dollars and I figure they wouldn't put mineral oil in there if it is going to burn out something. That would overcome the problem of a bad short and possible smoke if water leaks on the mobo in a water cooled system. It does introduce other issues but that is true of most things. Fix one problem, create another. Nothing is perfect. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
