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Creosote

Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Creosol 70% connected

A colorless liquid resembling phenol or carbolic acid, homologous with pyrocatechin, and obtained from beechwood tar and gum guaiacum.

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Aniline noun · 78% connection

An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…

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Antiseptic adjective · 78% connection

thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect…

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Benzofuran noun · 78% connection

a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

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Brand verb · 78% connection

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Brazilin noun · 78% connection

A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, from which it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which is white…

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Bromoform noun · 78% connection

A colorless liquid, CHBr3, having an agreeable odor and sweetish taste. It is produced by the simultaneous action of bromine and caust…

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Cairngormstone unknown · 78% connection

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

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Chloral noun · 78% connection

A colorless oily liquid, CCl3.CHO, of a pungent odor and harsh taste, obtained by the action of chlorine upon ordinary or ethyl alcoho…

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Chrysophyta noun · 78% connection

mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…

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Colorless adjective · 78% connection

Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorles…

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Coumarone noun · 78% connection

a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

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