Lab Equipment - Mineral/Paraffin Oil Video

Mineral oil or Paraffin oil is a useful oil for making oil baths and storing reactive metals. It is composed of high boiling inert hydrocarbons distilled from commercial crude oil.

Amateur chemists can use baby oil since baby oil is mostly composed of highly purified paraffin oil. It's best to use oil that is unscented and hypoallergenic as that oil is purest and has no reactive additives.

Your? voice is ...
Your? voice is freakin' me out!!

United nuclear is a ...
United nuclear is a good place to get glassware and chemicals for the average home chemist. I believe that NR gets his chemicals and such from alfa aesar. i have no idea? about the glassware.

Dr. NurdRage, where ...
Dr. NurdRage, where do you buy all that laboratory equipment??

is baby oil made ...
is baby oil made from? living babies or just dead ones?

Just learned about ...
Just learned about Kolbe electrolysis? (from Wikipedia), could electrolysis of fatty acids produce something similar to mineral oil?

i ussualy hate ...
i ussualy hate chemistry. but all of your videos are cool to? watch. while i'm bored. =D i subbed for more.

Hello nurdrage.I ...
Hello nurdrage.I would like to perform an an oil bath at around 150 degreed C, but I dont know what oil to use.I was thinking about? nujol oil.What is your opinion?

What? is that magic ...
What? is that magic bean in your dish? Is it witchcraft?

@1:18 The? balls ...
@1:18 The? balls are inert.

In my country, they ...
In my country, they don't use mineral oil as baby oil, but I found the mineral oil is often use in motor vehicle. So I head, to nearest pump? and I now have 100% pure mineral oil..

ah, so like how the ...
ah, so like how the only Tim Horton's in US are in buffolo and north dakota, etc and how only Denny's are in Niagra falls? and Newfoundland, etc also, Nurdrage has a video about them being at the toronto science festival or something so it confirmed my hypothesis, but thanks for your imput 'ere :)

In states bordering ...
In states bordering Canada, many stores will carry bilingual products in the area near French-speaking Canada. Also, many? Canadians will shop in the U.S. for availability reasons, etc, so it is important.

How do you remove ...
How do you remove traces? of water? Would "boiling" dehydrate it?

@nurdrage Huile ...
@nurdrage Huile pour bebes, are you from? Canada? as the labels are french and english? :D

It still leaves ...
It still leaves residual oil,? but I guess there's no better way.

It's either a girl ...
It's either a girl or a? guy with long fingernails!

Different metals ...
Different metals can? be separated by their electronegativity or positivity., Nurdrage did a video on Manganese sulfate outlining one procedure.

Just wipe it off.?
Just wipe it off.?

What's the best way ...
What's the best way to remove mineral? oil from reactive metals to avoid contaminating reactions?

My c0untry only ...
My c0untry only sells? mineral oil with parfum! =_=!!

WTF????
WTF????

Allways wondered, ...
Allways wondered, do you use a voice muffler??

Thanks for all the ...
Thanks for all the videos they are great, I would like very much to see a video of what in your oppinion should be standard chemicals and equipment in a hobby lab, maybe with? a explanation on the different uses for the particular chemicals you chose. For my own interest I would like very much to see a video on how to seperate the metals in common solder. tin lead silver. - Thanks again for all the good info you bring

0:34? yay lava lampa
0:34? yay lava lampa

does that ...
does that cylindrically curved qr code? work?

You can also buy ...
You can also buy fairly cheap mineral oil at livestock websites. They use it for animal? laxative. I bought 5 gallons once so I could make a mineral oil fishtank PC. It was pretty cool.

well i atleast know ...
well i atleast know that Nurdrage is canadian....superstore products?

Ahh. You're a ...
Ahh. You're a fellow Canadian. ::wave:: I almost didn't question the French on the bottles - it was the brand name Teddy's that? got me first, lol! (Nice to know about Baby Oil - that really gets my goat, I've bought extremely expensive mineral oil for my art, and I could have been using Baby oil!)