creosote 的 2 个定义
- an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic.
- coal-tar creosote.
cre·o·sot·ed, cre·o·sot·ing.
- to treat with creosote.
更多creosote例句
- If you have a wood-burning fireplace or stove, creosote can build up in your chimney.
- The company says this produces wood that ignites easier and burns cleaner, with less creosote and ash.
- Acres: 317 Population: 10,000 Toxic chemicals: 70 History: Another creosote victim.
- For three decades up to 1971 the Koppers Co.—now Beazer East—used creosote and PCPs to treat telephone poles.
- Ponds, wetlands, groundwater and soil in and around the site were contaminated through the years with chemicals found in creosote.
- The EPA removed 200 tons of creosote-contaminated soil from the site in February 1999.
- And each day before breakfast we soaked the seams of our clothes in vile-smelling creosote to kill off the lice and nits.
- A small quantity of the creosote passed over the surface of these with a feather, immediately removes the fetid odours.
- Some collectors, with indifferent olfactory sense, moisten the cork of their boxes with creosote.
- In fact, various forms of creosote are best-known preservers of organic matter.
- If you have any doubt about it, know that the desert begins with the creosote.