Uses of Coal Tar

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 16, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 24.

More substances are derived from coal tar than from any other product. From it alone enough money has been won during the past twenty years to pay our national debt thrice over. Besides carbolic acid, with its secondary products, picrine, the salicylates, and resorcine, much used in the preservation of food, there are saccharine, the sugar of the future, the aniline dye stuffs, and benzol, which is the basis for nearly all our most valued and high-priced perfumes.