creosote

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.