Hello All,
The mineral oil Brian Shilton describes sounds remarkably
like Paratone-N, a wey-lube. It is a yellowish thick liquid with
the consistency of old honey. I bought a gallon from Standard
Oil about three years ago for about $2. Hakon Hope mentions it
in his cryocrystallography review article (Hope, H. [1990] Ann. Rev.
Biophys. Biophys. Chem. 19:107-26 ). I wonder if any wey-lube
will work...
On Friday, Nov22 Brian Shilton writes:
>The mineral oil is in an unmarked jar in our lab, and no one seems
>to know exactly where it came from. It is extremely heavy (like
>molasses in consistency) and amber-coloured. It is at least
>7 or 10 years old: apparently at the time it was only available in
>large, industrial quantities; someone in Germany (may have been
>Hakomhoppe, according to my sources here) bought a huge quantity
>(200 litre drum) and distributed it in smaller quantities.
>Those are the origins of our nefarious oil.
--Brian Schick
bschick@doc.fullerton.edu
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