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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The trade-name of two different commercial products: Pearson's creolin, a mixture of coal-tar hydrocarbons (and probably phenols) with resin soap;
  • noun Artmann's creolin, a mixture of coal-tar hydrocarbons with cresol-sulphonic acid. They are used as antiseptic washes.

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  • noun A fraction of coal tar containing cresols.

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