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  1. Coal tar is a black oily material resulting
  2. from the destructive distillation of 
  3. bituminous coal. Further distillation of coal
  4. tar yields a number of fractions: light oil,
  5. middle oil, heavy oil, and anthracene oil.
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  7. Subject by: Simone Bennett
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