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creosol

NOUN
  1. a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote

How To Use creosol In A Sentence

  • These toxic by-products include, but are not limited to hydrogen sulfide, phenols, creosols, indoles, and ammonia.
  • Laminated Belting is not resistant to concentrated organic & inorganic acids, phenols & creosols.
  • The aqueous layer is removed and washed three times with 200-ml. portions of benzene, and the benzene extracts are combined with the crude creosol separated initially.
  • Though we lay no claims to perfection -- or anything like it -- few trenches were cleaner than ours were, and right to the very end of the war we never left a trench or billet without it being cleaner and more "lime and creosol" - ated than when we entered it. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
  • The EPA has banned creosol use because of health risks associated with it.
  • The witness said that she smelled a substance similar in odor to creosol.
  • It is a fortnight to-morrow since we mobilised, and we have had no work yet except our own fatigue duty in the Convent; it was our turn this morning, and I scrubbed the lavatories out with creosol. Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
  • Every time someone uses the toilet, he should pour or sprinkle into it a small amount of regular household disinfectant, such as creosol or chlorine bleach, to keep down odors and germs. In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)
  • Is there to be nothing left but silence and a shadow or a specimen in a dusty case of glass preserved in creosol and stuffed with lime? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
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