Kreosote vs Creosote - What's the difference?
kreosote | creosote |
A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
(uncountable) The creosote bush.
To apply creosote.
As nouns the difference between kreosote and creosote
is that kreosote is archaic form of creosote while creosote is a pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.As a verb creosote is
to apply creosote.creosote
English
(wikipedia creosote)Noun
Verb
(creosot)- As the fence is exposed he will creosote it for protection.
