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Coal tar   /koʊl tɑr/   Listen
Coal tar

noun
1.
A tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds.





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"Coal tar" Quotes from Famous Books



... be practically avoided by bringing the chicks out early in the season. If the disease does develop in the flock, the birds are taken from the coops at night and their heads dipped in a proper strength of one of the coal tar disinfectants. Such treatment once a week has generally been effective. This disease is an exception to the general rule that disinfectants which kill germs also kill the chicken. The explanation is that chicken-pox is an ...
— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings
... covered with a pall, was placed. The choir boy folded the altar cloth, wiggled his haunches, stood tiptoe on one foot and flipped his arms as if to fly away like a cherub, on pretext of reaching up to light the black tapers whose odour of coal tar and pitch was now added to the pestilential ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans


Words linked to "Coal tar" :   tar, naphthalene, pitch


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