A correlation has been made of the properties of 179 fractions of oil prepared by extensive distillation and extraction of the extract portion of the lubricant fraction from a midcontinent petroleum. The correlation includes a comparison of the properties of these fractions with those of a selected 15 of the same fractions after complete hydrogenation, with those of synthetic hydrocarbons of high molecular weight, and with those of fractions of "water-white" oil previously prepared from this same lubricant fraction.
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Mair et al. (1938) studied this question.