These two modifications are valuable lubricants.
Graphite is used for the manufacture of pencils, dry lubricants, grate polish, paints, crucibles and for foundry facings.
There is a great variety in the grades of oils produced in the state, ranging from the heavy asphaltic oils of the Popo Agie and Lander fields to the high-grade lubricants and superior light products obtained from the wells in the Douglas, Salt Creek and Uinta county fields.
However it has sold lubricants, and in 1984 produced a hardback Atlas for use by its German subsidiary.
Mineral oil enemas are used occasionally and act as both lubricants and stool softeners.