Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to creosote or cresol.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to cresyl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.
- adjective (Chem.) See
Cresol .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_ -- To the soap base, which must be strong to taste, is added from 3 to 4 per cent. of coal-tar derivatives, such as carbolic acid, cresylic acid, creosote, naphthalene, or compounds containing carbolic acid and its homologues.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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Various blends of different fractions of coal tar are used, but the most valuable constituents from a disinfectant point of view are undoubtedly the phenols, or tar acids, though in this case as with carbolic and cresylic soaps, the amount of phenols should not exceed 3 per cent. in a toilet soap.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
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On a commercial scale, however, cresol (cresylic acid) is substituted for phenol.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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When cresylic acid (or cresol, C_ {6} H_ {4} (CH_ {3}) OH.) is acted upon by nitric acid it produces a series of nitro compounds very similar to those formed by nitric acids on phenol, such as sodium di-nitro-cresylate, known in the arts as victoria yellow.
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Three of the containers are tanks containing the hazardous chemical cresylic acid and two of these have already washed ashore - one at Camps Bay and the other at Sea Point.
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Three of the containers were tanks containing the hazardous chemical cresylic acid.
Muti 2009
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