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Creosote   /krˈiəsˌoʊt/   Listen
Creosote

noun
1.
A colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic.
2.
A dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood.  Synonym: coal-tar creosote.



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"Creosote" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Creosote" :   coal-tar creosote, organic compound, creosol, process, creosote bush, treat


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