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<pre>Miscible means mixable ie olive oil can be mixed with canola oil

Vegetable oil = oilslike palm oil, coconut oil, peanut oil, olive oil
but not rose oil or eucalyptus oil.


When sprayaing for scale a vegeteble oil is mixed with water (note if
allowed to stand the oil floats on top. An emulsion can be made by
adding an emulsifying agent or detergent. I can only surmise this idea
is behind miscible oil. That is it forms an emulsion and so can be more
easily sprayed.


Commercial white oil when added to water gives such a cloudy emulsion.
However the commercial preparations contain liquid paraffin but there is
no refernce on the label regarding an emulsifying agent. But there must
be one present.

Prof Stan Kailis
UWA
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