2. Verb. (third-person singular of creosote) ¹
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Definition of Creosotes
1. creosote [v] - See also: creosote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creosotes
Literary usage of Creosotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Preservation of Structural Timber by Howard Frederick Weiss (1916)
"... (1) water-soluble preservatives, (2) crude oils, and (3) creosotes. Water-soluble
Preservatives.—While a large number of water- soluble preservatives ..."
2. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"98); "The Analysis and Grading of creosotes" (United States Forest Service,
Circular No. 112); "Volatilization of Various ..."
3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"98); "The Analysis and Grading of creosotes" (United States Forest Service,
Circular No. 112); "Volatilization of Various Fractions of Creosote after their ..."
4. Bulletin by United States, United States Bureau of Soils, United States Dept. of Agriculture. Bureau of Statistics (1909)
"THE creosotes AND ZINC CHLORID. In the United States creosote and zinc chlorid
are the only preservatives in common use. ..."
5. The San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Survey ...: First-third Annual Progress by Robert Cunningham Miller, Harold Francis Blum, Charles Atwood Kofoid, Walter Harrington Dore (1922)
"Oil tar creosotes. Such creosote is now being offered for wood preservation use
on the Pacific Coast. Repeated analyses show that it will pass every test ..."
6. Wood Preservation in the United States by William Forsythe Sherfesee (1909)
"THE creosotes AND ZINC CHLORID. In the United States creosote and zinc chlorid
are the only preservatives in common use. ..."
7. Circular by United States Forest Service (1911)
"Fractional distillation curves for samples classed as coal-tar creosotes (classes
1 and 2) 15 6. Index of refraction curves for samples classified as ..."
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