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
  • When searching for the best dandruff shampoo for dogs, keep an eye out for products that contain coal tar.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • 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

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