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Dark brown or black viscous liquid obtained by the destructive distillation of coal, shale, and wood. Tars consist of a mixture of hydrocarbons, acids, and bases. Creosote and paraffin oil are produced from wood tar. See also coal tar.

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In computing, a compression routine in common use on the Internet. Originally developed for Unix operating systems, the tar utility archives files and directories by grouping them together into one large file, which can then be compressed and stored off-line. It is often used to distribute software for Unix systems, and tar files bear the extension .tar. A file with the extension tar.Z is a tar archive that has also been compressed with the Unix compression utility.

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acridine Alberta aniline anthracene Aran Islands Athabasca benzene benzpyrene Bosch, Carl Caesar, Sid cement charcoal chloracne coal tar creosote detergent Domagk, Gerhard Edison, Thomas Alva flamethrower			Creosote is the generic name used for a variety of wood preservatives: wood creosote, coal tar creosote, coal tar, coal tar pitch, and coal tar pitch volatiles all fall under the general category of creosote. Landscaping with Railway Ties! by Bill Prudehome / Home improvement and landscaping community Editor's note: The following erratum was published in the January 2006 issue (Environ Health Perspect 114:A21): EHP regrets the incorrect and unintentional inference in "Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impervious Surfaces" [Environ Health Perspect 113:A456-A462 (2005)] that coal tar pitch is used in the actual hot-mix asphalt used to pave roads. Coal tar and paving products by Schulte, Paul A. / Environmental Health Perspectives EHP regrets the incorrect and unintentional inference in "Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impervious Surfaces" [Environ Health Perspect 113:A456-A462 (2005)] that coal tar pitch is used in the actual hot-mix asphalt used to pave roads. Errata by Environmental Health Perspectives			Taos tap dancing tap-and-die set Tapachula tape music tape recording, magnetic tape streamer Taperinha tapestry tapestry, Renaissance tapeworm TAPI Tàpies, Antoni tapioca Tapiola tapir Tapissier, Johannes Tappan Tappan, Arthur Tappan, Henry Tappan, Lewis taproot taqsim tar Tar Heel State tar pitch Tara Hill Tarabulus Taranis tarantella Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Taranto tarantula Tarapacá Tarare Taras Bulba Tarbell, Edmund Tarbell, Ida Tarbert Tarbes Tarbolton Tarboro Tarchi, Angelo tardando Tardieu, Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tarditi, Orazio tare Taree Tarentum target market Târgu Jiu			tar baby tar base Tar board tar boy tar camphor tar camphor tar camphor tar camphor tar cement tar concrete tar derivatives tar derivatives tar derivatives tar derivatives tar derivatives tar distillate Tar Heel Tar Heel Aquatic Team Tar Heel Girls State Tar Heel Junior Historian Association Tar Heel State Tar Heel State Tar Heel Wire Tar Heels Tar Hollow State Park Tar macadam Tar macadam tar paper tar paper tar pit tar pitch Tar pits Tar River Tar River Writing Project TAR RNA binding protein Tar sand Tar sand Tar sands Tar sands tar seep TAR syndrome Tar water tar with the same brush Tar, Primary tar-and-feather tar-and-gravel roofing Tar-Bonded Dolomite Refractory Tar-Bonded Magnesite Refractory Tar-Covered Macadam tar-wood TAR3 Tara Tara Tara Tara Tara Tara Tara (disambiguation) Tara (disambiguation) Tara Afghan Hound Club Tara Hill

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