Definition of Coal tar
1. Noun. A tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds.
Definition of Coal tar
1. Noun. A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of very many products. ¹
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Literary usage of Coal tar
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1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1894)
"THE preparations of coal tar, in the form of tinctures, from a pharmaceutical
standpoint, are not well understood. When they are prescribed the pharmacist ..."
2. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Coal-tar creosote, sometimes called creosote oil. contains that portion of the
distillate from coal-tar intermediate between crude naphtha on the one hand ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1856)
"There is not perhaps any waste article of our manufacturing industry which has
been so singularly neglected as coal-tar, and yet there can be but very few ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1906)
"Still another industry has undergone vast changes through Perkin's discoveries
and since the beginning of the coal tar epoch—the manufacture of artificial ..."
5. Structural Engineers' Handbook: Data for the Design and Construction of by Milo Smith Ketchum (1914)
"Portland cement paint or coal tar paint are the only paints that will withstand
the action of engine blasts. To obtain the best results in painting metal ..."
6. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"Discovery of coal tar and Coal-tar Pitch. In a patent taken out in England on
August 19, 1681, by Beefier and Serle, entitled "A new way of Makeing Pitch, ..."
7. Eminent Chemists of Our Time by Benjamin Harrow (1920)
"And coal-tar dyes are to-day used in every histológica! and bacteriological
laboratory. So rapid had been the progress of the industry that in 1861, ..."
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