Talk:Creosote

message: The article mentions that wooden railroad ties are generally treated with creosote.  Aren't wooden telephone poles also normally treated with creosote?--McDogm 21:45, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wooden Telephone Poles 

message: Don't most Wikipedia articles about substances such as creosote; ie ammonia, saltpeter, lye, etc, normally include something written from an expert chemical science point of view?, including material relating to why creosote is what it is and does what it does?--McDogm 21:49, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Creosote is blend of varying heavy polyaromatic compounds. It's chemical composition is undefined. Usually it's made from the residue from napthalene distillation mixed together with lighter coal tar pitches and smaller amounts of light oil. Mohammed al-Khawal 04:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Molecular Structure and Chemical Nature 

message: COULD SOMEONE PLEASE ADD SOME FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURES OF CREOSOTE POLES
THANKS
JJ  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.208.48.176 (talk) 06:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  PRACTICAL USES OF CREOSOTE POLES 

message: I never thought properly about creosote and imagined it to be a black tar, but now I realize I was thinking of bitumen. Could we have a picture of creosote so we can see what it looks like? Pictures on the internet show the grey, ashy interior of a chimney. What does creosote look like when it is collected in a bucket? — O'Dea (talk) 18:33, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs a photograph 

message: I have never seen the word "anti-septic" before. Is that a regional usage? 
Of course, "septic" does not mean "microorganism" - it means several other things, but not that.
I believe "antiseptic" would be a more suitable word for use in this article. Thoughts? Dratman (talk) 06:14, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anti-septic? 

message: The caption states: "... in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in March 1943. This U.S. wartime governmental photo ..." -- I don't think so.  Color photography was pretty crude back then, and this is not.  Somebody is scamming or scammed -- or just confused. Grammar'sLittleHelper (talk) 02:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Look at the information for this on Commons, and especially look at the uncropped version with all the detail of the edges. It certainly looks authentic to me. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:20, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color photograph from 1943? 

message: Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) is a desert shrub that is said to superficially smell like creosote. Without presenting evidence that creosote bush actually contains creosote, it should not be even mentioned in this article, except perhaps to note that it got its name because it smells like creosote. Including a whole paragraph on the medicinal uses of creosote bush here is seriously wrong. After all, we don't discuss the physical properties of ironwood at Iron, nor tarweed at Tar, etc. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:33, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creosote Bush is not Creosote 

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message: I simply want to have the authors of the articles on "tar" and "creosote" address the issues about the lack of effectiveness of coal tar on the preservation or waterproofing of
wood raised in this article (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-tar-and-its-products-as-preser/?redirect=1). None of those concerns appear in either Wikipedia article, and I don't know if
they are spurious (,because the scientific american article is a little confusing with a lot of typo-graphical errors) or not.Amoss1985 (talk) 20:53, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effectiveness of tar or creosote