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Thick black liquid distilled from a fuel
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coal tar
Word definitions for coal tar in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A new family shampoo comes by way of Cuticura Medicated Shampoo, with an original coal tar formula that helps prevent dandruff. ▪ Getting rid of PAHs requires the replacement of old cast iron mains lined with coal tar paper. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coal \Coal\ (k[=o]l), n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol, cholo, G. kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr. jval to burn. Cf. Kiln , Collier .] A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A black, viscous tar made by the destructive distillation of coal (to make coke and town gas); it contains a great number of compounds including hydrocarbons and phenols; used in the preparation of medicated soap and shampoo, and industrially for the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coal tar is a brown or black liquid of extremely high viscosity . Coal tar is among the by-products when coal is carbonized to make coke or gasified to make coal gas . Coal tars are complex and variable mixtures of phenols , polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal; coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds
Usage examples of coal tar.
It hung on to his forehead, and his eyes were dark and fathomless as pools of coal tar - and Isabella understood why her mother had been afraid.
There was plenty of coal tar stockpiled at Coaltown, so we scheduled an asphalt runway on the plain below the hill.
My experiments in trying to distill a decent lamp fuel from coal tar had met with a pretty dismal failure.
The fire gave off a strangling black smoke, but no heat whatever, and deposited something like coal tar on all my furniture, upholsteries, and even on my person.
It goes fifty miles an hour and it'll run on methane or coal tar -probably even on hair tonic.
Bowing my head contritely, I went, without a word, into the bathroom, and there, beneath the amazed gaze of ayah and Monkey, scrubbed teeth tongue roofofmouth gums with a toothbrush covered in the sharp foul lather of Coal Tar Soap.