Menhaden Oil

Name:
Menhaden Oil
Detailed information:

Properties:

Yellowish-brown or reddish-brown, drying oil; characteristic odor. D 0.927–0.933, saponification value 191–196, iodine value 139–180, refr index 1.480. Soluble in ether, benzene, naphtha, and carbon disulfide. Combustible.

Derivation:

By cooking or pressing the body of the menhaden fish.

Method of Purification:

Filtration and bleaching with fuller's earth.

Grade:

Prime crude, brown strained, strained, bleached, winter oil, bleached winter white oil.

Hazard:

Subject to spontaneous heating.

Use:

Hydrogenated fats for cooking and industrial use (soap, rubber compounding), printing inks, animal feed, leather dressing lubricants, paint drier, cleansers, lipstick.