Coal Tar Distillate (Creosote)—The First and Still Great Choice to ...
Coal tar distillate (of which creosote is a product) is a dark brown liquid that is produced by thermal distillation of coal tar. Coal tar is a biproduct of producing coke for steel production from coal via a pyrolytic process in "coke ovens" where the coal is heated to over 1,000°C in an oxygenlimited condition (Ametek 2022).The tar is distilled into lower, medium, and highboiling ...