coal tar

See also: coaltar, and coal-tar

English

Noun

coal tar (countable and uncountable, plural coal tars)

1. 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 medicinal soap and shampoo, and industrially for the manufacture of many products.

   Coordinate term: coal oil

   • 1989, Alain Chauvel, Gilles Lefebvre, Petrochemical Processes: Major Oxygenated, Chlorinated And Nitrated Derivatives, page 123:

     Phenol can be obtained from coal tars by two methods : (a) Directly by separation of the product contained in this type of feedstock, at the rate of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent weight.

Translations

black viscous tar

• Bulgarian: каменовъглен катран (kamenovǎglen katran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 煤焦油 (zh) (méijiāoyóu)

• Czech: uhelný dehet
• Finnish: kivihiiliterva (fi)
• French: coaltar (fr) m
• Irish: tarra guail m
• Japanese: コールタール (kōru-tāru)
• Italian: catrame (it) m
• Persian: قطران زغال‌سنگ (qatrân-e zoğâl-sang)
• Russian: каменноу́гольная смола́ f (kamennoúgolʹnaja smolá)
• Spanish: alquitrán bituminoso m, chapapote hullero m, chapopote carbonoso m

Anagrams

• Alcorta, crotala