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
- Sometimes it feels like my childhood world was made entirely of coal tar. Times, Sunday Times
- Some progress has been made in this direction, but so far the main results are certain degradation-products such as aniline dyes derived from coal tar; salicylic acid; essences of fruits; etc. Still these and many other discoveries of the same nature do not prove that the laboratory of man can compete with the laboratory of the living plant cell. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
- Ugwu wondered if she, too, could feel the coal tar getting hotter underneath, through her thin soles. Excerpt: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Various blends of different fractions of coal tar are used, but the most valuable constituents from a disinfectant point of view are undoubtedly the phenols, or tar acids, though in this case as with carbolic and cresylic soaps, the amount of phenols should not exceed 3 per cent. in a toilet soap. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
- The researchers plan to test their screening technique to find microbes that break down carcinogenic chemicals at coal tar waste sites.
- Common aromatic compounds other than benzene include toluene, naphthalene, and anthracene, all of which are present in coal tar or creosote.
- Getting rid of PAHs requires the replacement of old cast iron mains lined with coal tar paper.
- The only non-sugar sweetener at present licensed for use in most countries is saccharin, a synthetic substance made from coal tar.
- Sometimes it feels like my childhood world was made entirely of coal tar. Times, Sunday Times
- Yet no mention was made of the fact that before 1990, Alcoa used a much more dangerous form of coal tar pitch than the paste form now used.
