Add a drachm of creosote to a pint of water, and mix by shaking.
At half-past twelve the dentist came in from the "Parlors," bringing with him the smell of creosote and of ether.
He rode out to the creosote flats and cantered down the road.
It led them through a desolate country of desert where the flat-leafed prickly pear and the occasional pudgy creosote were the chief forms of vegetable life.
Wood tar likewise protects animal matter from change, by the creosote it contains.
Water takes up of purecreosote only 1-3/4 per cent.
The process of smoking depends upon the action of the wood acid, or the creosotevolatilized with it, which operates upon the flesh.
Instead of alcohol, a much cheaper vehicle is water saturated with sulphurous acid; and if a few drops of creosote be added, the mixture will become very efficacious.
Creosote has considerable power upon the nervous system, and has been applied to the teeth with advantage in odontalgia, as well as to the skin in recent scalds.
Creosote dissolves a large quantity of iodine and phosphorus, as also of sulphur with the aid of heat, but it deposits the greater part of them in crystals, on cooling.
Creosote dissolves several salts, particularly the acetates, and the chlorides of calcium and tin; it reduces the nitrate and acetate of silver.
Oxide of mercury converts creosote into a resinous matter, while itself is reduced to the metallic state.
Undoubtedly a little creosote would be of use to counteract the decomposing influence of the alcohol upon the animal substances.
The potash being then saturated with dilute sulphuric acid, the creosote becomes free, when it may be decanted or syphoned off and distilled.
Creosote may be prepared either from tar or from crude pyrolignous acid.
Creosote is largely employed as a preservative for wood, being forced into the timber under high pressure, so that it penetrates right into it and tends to prevent rotting, no matter how wet it may be.
Railway sleepers are thus treated, small truck-loads of them being run into a cast-iron tunnel which is then sealed at both ends, while the creosote is forced in by powerful pumps.
A much better way is to dip them in some one of the prepared "creosote stains," which can be had in a great variety of colours.
The shingles can be dipped in creosote stain or paint to good advantage before laying.
Creosote is used as a preventive, to the extent to which it saturates the wood.
The modern so-called "creosote stains" are excellent, not very expensive, and easily applied.
If wood creosote is used the cotton must be well squeezed to get rid of the excess of fluid, as it is poisonous if swallowed, and will burn the gum and mouth if allowed to overflow from the tooth.
I have used Portland cement but I treated with creosote first.
It was green as a lawn, that dry, treeless desert with its millions of evenly spaced creosote bushes; but as the sun rose higher it turned blood-red like an omen of evil to come.
So he thought within himself, "Come forth, some kind of plant," and there appeared the creosote bush.
Next he created some black insects which made black gum on the creosote bush.
Two and three quarter gallons of creosote is a very good and suitable quantity for a 10 inch by 5 inch rectangular sleeper, but not more than half this quantity can be forced in if the sleeper is wet or unseasoned.
The machinery is then set to work to exhaust the air from the cylinder and allow the creosote to flow in amongst the sleepers.
Creosote is obtainable in large quantities, at prices varying from twopence to fourpence per gallon, according to the demand and cost of production.
No increased quantity of creosote would have made them last longer, and any increased quantity of creosote would have been waste.
Newly delivered sleepers or railway timber contain so much sap or water that it is impossible to force a sufficient quantity of creosote into them until they are properly seasoned or dried.
Studies were conducted, for example, of the effect of deliberately depositing nonradioactive dust on healthy creosote plants, and comparative studies of other phenomena were made.
The unsightly limbs of the cactus, and the gloomy foliage of the creosote bush, grow together in seams of the rocks, heightening their character of ruggedness and gloom.
There was no vegetation around us except the sickly green of the artemisia, or the fetid foliage of the creosote plant.
I saw that it was thecreosote plant, the ideodondo.
The mountains were a range of dry rocks, so parched-like and barren that even the creosote bush could not find nourishment along their sides.
We passed on our route clumps of cacti, and thickets of creosote bushes, that emitted their foul odours as we crushed through them.
Gray day was dawning when they crossed the Creosote Flats and were seen by a sheep-herder at a distance.
A sheepherder on the Creosote Flats heard the sound of horses' hoofs early next morning.
It is compactly built but has only one main street, that named San Nicolas, which is paved with woodencreosote blocks.
Its streets are paved with creosote blocks as in Paris; it has an electric car system and all the progressive improvements.
Typical plants of the desert flats and slopes are creosote bush, mesquite, cactus, yucca, and agave.
Lac, an insect secretion found on creosote bushes, was sometimes used to cement the turquoise and argillite to the shell base.
R] To have given the creosote a fair trial it should have been injected undiluted with water; no one who has tried this curious product will deny that it possesses the most powerful antiseptic properties.
A small quantity of the creosote passed over the surface of these with a feather, immediately removes the fetid odours.
One arm terminates in a large bulb, entirely filled with a mixture of creosote and water.
The bend in the tube contains a column of mercury, and the other arm ends in a small bulb, partly filled with creosote and water, but with a large space empty, or rather filled with the vapor of the mixture and compressed air.
March:--All unused wells and watering ponds must be plentifully polluted with dung and creosote soda.
Sufficient dung and creosote soda must be placed in readiness beside the wells which are still in use.
Creosote is a Sedative, and cannot be well given in such large doses as to act upon distant parts.
Creosote stands, as a medicine, between Hydrocyanic acid and Turpentine.
Creosote is firstly a general Sedative, secondly an Astringent.
Thus Acetate of lead is employed in haemoptysis; Creosote and Uvae Ursi are used in haemorrhage from the stomach or bladder; and the vegetable Astringents are prescribed in Dysentery.
Tannic Acid, Gallic Acid, and Creosote are the three chief Vegetable Astringents.
A further quantity of impure naphthalene separates out from the next fraction--the creosote oil, and this is similarly washed and purified by distillation.
The creosote oil constitutes more than 30 per cent.
All timber which is buried underground, or submerged in water, is impregnated with this antiseptic creosote in order to prevent decay.
If three volumes of water be added, the separation of the wood creosote is immediate.
Wood creosote does not coagulate albumen, and is, therefore, not as serviceable.
The object of this query can be but one, namely, to inquire whether the wood creosote offered for sale is a pure article, or not; and if not, what is the impurity present?
The general sales of creosote by the pharmacist are in small quantities as a toothache remedy, and phenol has the power of coagulating albumen, which effectually relieves the suffering.
The conclusion is that the wood creosote of the market of the present time is in abundant supply, is of unexceptionable quality, and reasonable in price, so that there is no excuse for the substitution of the phenol commonly sold for it.
Two samples of commercial creosote which, from the low cost, were known to be of coal tar origin gave the negative tests, showing that they were phenol.
When it is directed for use for internal administration (the medicinal effect being entirely dissimilar), wood creosote only should be dispensed.
Collodion or albumen with an equal bulk of wood creosotemakes a perfect mixture without coagulation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creosote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
