Mineral oil is used as an overlay covering microdrops of culture medium in petri dishes, during the culture of oocytes and embryos in IVF and related procedures. It also has its applications in food processing, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. A mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless,…

A mineral oil is any of various colorless, odorless, light mixtures of alkanes in the C15 to C40 range from a non-vegetable (mineral) source, particularly a distillate of petroleum.Most often, mineral oil is a liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other…

Mineral Oil is a colorless, odorless mixture of alkanes from a mineral source. It is often used as an inert overlay to minimize evaporation in molecular biology applications, including PCR, but has many other applications in other research fields.