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      3 days ago

      I’ve always found the petroleum distillate “Mineral spirits” to be oddly named in the same way. Also, if you’re from the US, canola is rapeseed oil of a specific variety that they rebranded as a combination of “Canada” and “oil” because rapeseed didn’t sit well with customers. There’s a lot of power in what we call things.

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        iirc the -la in canola stands for low acid, because non Canadian varieties at the time were not low acid

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          Canada oil low acid does ring a bell. It’s been a bit since I’d read up on it.