Carbolic composition

Mc a-para-cresol mixture, i.e., the mother liquor having approximately a composition of 65-75% p-cresol and 30-35% m-cresol with not more than 1% o-cresol and xylenols, is an ideal feedstock for making butylated hydroxy toluene (BHT). Traditionally this mixture is being sold to carbolic... 

Composition. — A mixture of carbolic and kresylic acids with other bodies. 

Table 5.4 shows the composition of a carbolic oil obtained by refining of high-temperature coal tar its processing scheme is depicted in Figure 5.17. 

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