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creosote
[ kree-uh-soht ]
noun
- an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
verb (used with object)
- to treat with creosote.
creosote
/ ˈkrɪəˌsəʊt; ˌkrɪəˈsɒtɪk /
noun
- a colourless or pale yellow liquid mixture with a burning taste and penetrating odour distilled from wood tar, esp from beechwood, contains creosol and other phenols, and is used as an antiseptic
- Also calledcoal-tar creosote a thick dark liquid mixture prepared from coal tar, containing phenols: used as a preservative for wood
verb
- to treat (wood) with creosote
creosote
/ krē′ə-sōt′ /
- A yellow or brown oily liquid obtained from coal tar and used as a wood preservative and disinfectant.
- A colorless to yellowish oily liquid containing phenols, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, especially from the wood of a beech, and formerly used as an expectorant in treating chronic bronchitis.
Derived Forms
- creosotic, adjective
Other Words From
- cre·o·sot·ic [kree-, uh, -, sot, -ik], adjective
- un·creo·soted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of creosote1
Word History and Origins
Origin of creosote1
Example Sentences
If you have a wood-burning fireplace or stove, creosote can build up in your chimney.
The company says this produces wood that ignites easier and burns cleaner, with less creosote and ash.
Acres: 317 Population: 10,000 Toxic chemicals: 70 History: Another creosote victim.
For three decades up to 1971 the Koppers Co.—now Beazer East—used creosote and PCPs to treat telephone poles.
Ponds, wetlands, groundwater and soil in and around the site were contaminated through the years with chemicals found in creosote.
The EPA removed 200 tons of creosote-contaminated soil from the site in February 1999.
And each day before breakfast we soaked the seams of our clothes in vile-smelling creosote to kill off the lice and nits.
A small quantity of the creosote passed over the surface of these with a feather, immediately removes the fetid odours.
Some collectors, with indifferent olfactory sense, moisten the cork of their boxes with creosote.
In fact, various forms of creosote are best-known preservers of organic matter.
If you have any doubt about it, know that the desert begins with the creosote.
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