NOUN
- a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds
How To Use coal tar In A Sentence
- She was using the best guest soap every day instead of the coal tar soap which was to be used by family.
- Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars.
- She was using the best guest soap every day instead of the coal tar soap which was to be used by family.
- Sometimes it feels like my childhood world was made entirely of coal tar. Times, Sunday Times
- This form of creosote, a mixture of chemicals created by distilling coal tar, is toxic in large amounts or after extended exposure.
- The coal tar smell, caused by mercaptans (sulphur containing compounds), was disagreeable but the concentrations on site would not cause health problems
- A kind of self - made coal tar cleaning agent and its specialty were introduced.
- For instance, the substance indole, which comes from coal tar and animal feces, actually smells like jasmine at its detection threshold.
- It is different than the more commonly known coal tar creosote, which is made of petrochemicals and is the world's most widely used wood preservative, applied to power poles, railroad ties and bridge timbers. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Sometimes it feels like my childhood world was made entirely of coal tar. Times, Sunday Times
