coal tar
Black oily material resulting from the destructive distillation of bituminous coal.
The fractional distillation of coal tar yields light oil, middle oil, heavy oil, and anthracene oil; the residue is called pitch. On further distillation a large number of substances are obtained, about 200 of which have been isolated. They are used as dyes and in medicines.
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