Coal Tar Creosote

This book deals with the risks to human health of coal tar creosote. Wood creosote is a different product that is used mainly in pharmaceutical preparations and is not treated in this volume. Coal tar creosote is a brownish-black/yellowish-dark green oily liquid with a characteristic odour that is obtained by the fractional distillation of crude coal tars. It consists of a mixture of several hundred probably a thousand chemicals but only a limited number of them are present in amounts greater th