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Creosote   /krˈiəsˌoʊt/   Listen
verb
Creosote  v. t.  (past & past part. creosoted; pres. part. creosoting)  To saturate or impregnate with creosote, as timber, for the prevention of decay.



noun
Creosote  n.  (Chem.) Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood. Note: It is remarkable as an antiseptic and deodorizer in the preservation of wood, flesh, etc., and in the prevention of putrefaction; but it is a poor germicide, and in this respect has been overrated. Smoked meat, as ham, owes its preservation and taste to a small quantity of creosote absorbed from the smoke to which it is exposed. Carbolic acid is phenol 1 proper, while creosote is a mixture of several phenols.
Coal-tar creosote (Chem.), a colorless or yellow, oily liquid, obtained in the distillation of coal tar, and resembling wood-tar oil, or creosote proper, in composition and properties.






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"Creosote" Quotes from Famous Books



... parts by weight absorb 140 or 150 parts by weight of coal tar. A factory which distilled a good standard tar for roofing paper recovered, besides benzole and naphtha, also about ten per cent. of creosote oil, used for one hundred parts raw paper, 176.4 partially distilled tar. Experiments on a larger as well as a smaller scale reduced this quantity to an average of 141.5 parts for one hundred parts raw paper. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various

... and his stomach pump. Antimony, Oak bark, strong green tea. Baryta or lime, Epsom salts, oils, magnesia. Bismuth, White of eggs, sweet milk. Copper, White of eggs, strong coffee. Gases, Cold douche, followed by friction. Iodine, Starch, wheat flour in water. Creosote, White of eggs, sweet milk. Lead, Strong lemonade, Epsom salts. Opium and other narcotics, Emetics, cold douche, and heat. Phosphorus, Magnesia in copious draughts. Zinc, White of eggs, sweet milk. Mad-dog bite, Apply fire in some form to the wound, thoroughly and ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous

... inhalations in bronchitis is very great. The ordinary croup kettle, which can be bought in any good drug store, is the best method of giving them. Full directions come with each kettle as to the best way to use it. The best drug to use in the kettle is creosote (beechwood). Ten drops are added to one quart of boiling water and the steaming continued for thirty minutes. The interval between steaming is two hours and a half in bad cases day and night. In mild cases the night treatments ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... carbon it contains, it is said to furnish a satisfactory light in lamps specially made for it; and in its natural state it is the cheapest illuminating oil. There are some thirty factories engaged in its production, and they turn out about 40,000 liters of the oil daily. Turpentine, creosote, acetic acid, charcoal, coal-tar oils, etc., are also obtained from the same materials as the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 • Various

... the mechanics of his driving that she had a chance to view the landscape by herself. The white, silty desert, stretching off to blue mountains, was set as regularly as a vineyard with the waxy, dark-green creosote bushes; and at uncertain intervals the fluted giant cactus rose up like sentinels on the plain. All the desert trees that grew near the town—the iron-woods and palo verdes and cat-claws and mesquite and salt-bushes—had been ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge


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