0 a thick, brown liquid used especially for protecting wood --
1 to put creosote on something: --
James and I creosoted the fence.
The second method is high-temperature carbonisation, the by-product of which for our purposes is creosote.
There is a good deal of creosote and matter of that kind in that conglomeration.
Is the best use being made of creosote oil?
We can also get benzoic, road tar, pitch, creosote, disinfectants, paints, varnishes, dyes, perfumes, drugs and explosives from the same source.
In the iron and steel industry additional creosote-pitch is being used in a number of cases in place of fuel oil.
A number of reports on the potential health hazards of creosote have, however, been published.
In addition, creosote oil for use as oil fuel is obtained from the distillation of coal tar.
I understand that some creosote-like waste was tipped on land at the head of the river and has been washed into the water.
