How to Use coal tar in a Sentence

coal tar

noun

• The first food dyes were created from coal tar in the late 1800s.
  — Lorne J. Hofseth, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2021
• The peat here is more like coal tar than anything else.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• There’s a nice tangy hint of oranges too, and the coal tar smoke persists.
  — Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• Quinine was used at the time to treat malaria, but Perkin's creation, made from coal tar, did no such thing.
  — CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
• It was derived from coal tar, which was pretty much par for the course for the 19th century chemistry.
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• Black henna is a synthetic coal tar dye and is not FDA-approved.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 Dec. 2015
• Grebien said the coal tar is being cleaned up and extra booms are being added to protect the river.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• But in the transition, some coal tar residue got out into the river — less than 20 gallons — creating a sheen.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• Mission Control's air ducts were black with coal tar from the cigarettes, and replaced during the restoration.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 July 2019
• His plan was to extract a synthetic version of the malaria drug quinine from a sludgy byproduct of gas lighting known as coal tar.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2019
• From coal tar comes the colorant tartrazine, otherwise known as Yellow #5.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2022
• Some of the most common ones include pyrithione zinc, salicylic acid, ketoconazole, and coal tar.
  — Anthea Levi, Health.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• But the coal-gasification plant left the ground saturated with a hazardous byproduct, coal tar.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• Through wells drilling into the contamination zone, water will be pumped out to remove coal tar and stop the spread of its ingredients.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• And this year, an undetermined amount of coal tar oil leaked into the Seekonk River at the project site, contaminating soil and bringing emergency crews to the area.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• The antiseptic Lister ends up using is carbolic acid, which is extracted from coal tar, of all places.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2017
• Look for products that contain ingredients such as salicylic acid and coal tar.
  — Lindsay Modglin, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• Downtown Orlando had one of the operations, although its coal tar drained into a well that funneled the poison to the top portion of the region’s water supply, the Floridan Aquifer.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• The use of coal tar sealants on all residential and commercial projects in Glenview will be prohibited following a Tuesday Board of Trustees vote.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The waste material from manufacturing gas was coal tar, a heavy and toxic liquid that readily sank into the site’s sandy soil.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Those plants provided residents with the comforts of heat and light, but left coal tar contamination behind.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• One of the residues of that was coal tar, which is what the gas company buried during an era before there were any environmental laws or regulations, city officials said.
  — Steve Lord, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Nov. 2017
• The coal tar contamination is just one of several environmental issues the city has been struggling with due to aging pipes in Old Town.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• To this day, coal tar dyes (which are now derived from petroleum) do not require FDA certification.
  — Rebecca Guenard, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2014
• Today, reflective fragments of coal tar cling to the water’s surface, striated in bands like a marble countertop.
  — Sasha Von Oldershausen, Curbed, 8 Apr. 2022
• This is in part the work of indole, an aromatic compound present in foul-smelling substances like coal tar and feces, which in trace amounts gives the most delicate of flowers an almost animal opulence.
  — New York Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• Goeckerman therapy uses both coal tar and light therapies to help with symptoms.
  — Korin Mille, SELF, 1 Sep. 2021
• People with both eczema and psoriasis also often find relief from over-the-counter ointments that use coal tar, an ingredient that reduces swelling and scaling.
  — Glamour, 7 Nov. 2022
• The plant created coal tar as a byproduct, which contains contaminants such as sulfur, heavy metals and metalloids such as mercury and arsenic.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2020
• Earlier that day, Falhberg had been investigating the chemistry of coal tar derivatives and spilled some on his hands.
  — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 7 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024