Definitions for coal-tar

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coal-tar coal tar

Coal-Tar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in coal-tar (-aaclort).

Definitions for coal-tar

noun

1. a thick, black, viscid liquid formed during the distillation of coal, that upon further distillation yields compounds, as benzene, anthracene, and phenol, from which are derived a large number of dyes, drugs, and other synthetic compounds, and that yields a final residuum (coal-tar pitch) which is used chiefly in making pavements.

Origin of coal-tar

First recorded in 1775-85

Examples for coal-tar

The most interesting of these compounds are the coal tar products.

Some of the chemical colorings are derivatives of coal tar, just as are the coal-tar flavorings.

For the coke and each of its by-products, coal tar and coal gas, are commercial necessities of life.

coal tar dyes are used in the production of green and purple straws.

It looked as if the bottom were dropping out of coal tar Products.

But you must not imagine that all that comes out of coal tar is contained in it.

Saccharine, a coal tar product 300 to 500 times sweeter than sugar, but of no food value.

Over fourteen thousand colors have been produced from coal tar.

coal tar when distilled yields three main products: naphtha, dead oil, and pitch or asphalt.

Attention has been called to the complex nature of coal tar.