Re: Mineral oil in australia??

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Original poster: "Matthew Smith by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>

Hi Sheik

Try another name!

>Hello, I have had lots of trouble finding mineral oil in australia =
>(brisbane).

Also known as "liquid paraffin" in UK/AU English - my wife who is pure 
Aussie uses this term, anyway  (I'm English).  It's used for drenching 
horses and is sold by the gallon/4.5-ish litres.

Please do *not* confuse with straight "paraffin" (kerosene in US 
English)  I'm sure that it has fine dilectric properties; trouble is, it 
has some rather flammable ones as well ;-)

I believe that paraffin is also obsolete chemical-speak for olefins, but I 
may be wrong. (And confusing the issue.)

Cheers

M

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