Is mineral oil organic or inorganic?

Answer 1

I may not understand your question. All rock oil (petroleum), the kind of oil pumped out of the ground from which gasoline and kerosene are made, is inorganic. However, there are many useful organic oils, pressed from the seeds or fruits of plants, such as olive oil, soybean oil,cottonseed oil, linseed oil, canola oil, coconut oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, castor oil and others.

Answer 2

Mineral oil is classified as inorganic because it is derived from crude oil, which is a non-living, inorganic substance. Organic compounds, on the other hand, contain carbon and are typically derived from living organisms.

Answer 3

Crude oil consists almost entirely of carbon-based molecules. Anything with carbon in usually considered organic.

Answer 4

All oils as foods are a mixture of organic compounds.

Industrial oils are also organic but they may contain inorganic additives.

Answer 5

All oils are organic

Answer 6

organic, as they are mixture of alkanes