Synthetic oil is oil that has been modified with artificial substances that were not originally found in the crude petroleum that is used to make conventional oil. In many instances, synthetic oil is used as a substitute for conventional oil when the price of petroleum becomes too high to efficiently produce conventional oil.
There are many advantages of using synthetic oil over conventional oil. One of the advantages is that synthetic oil has better high and low temperature viscosity performance than conventional oil. It also has better shear and chemical stability and is a better lubricant on cold starts. There is also less evaporation loss with synthetic oil because many of the components that are found in synthetic oil are artificial. It is also beneficial to the environment because synthetic oil typically lasts longer than conventional oil, which means that there will be less oil wasted and disposed of in the environment.
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