Wood tar is used in traditional Finnish medicine because of its microbicidial properties.

Wood tar is microbicidal and has a pleasant odor.

The by-products of wood tar are turpentine and charcoal.

In Finland and Scandinavia, the charcoal was considered the by-product of wood tar production.

Wood tar is also available diluted as tar water, which has numerous uses:

The bordering countries have traditionally provided lumber, wood tar, flax, hemp and furs.

It is found in wood tar, various cerebrosides, and in small amounts in most natural fats.

Distillation of wood tar.

In Finland wood tar was once considered a panacea reputed to heal "even those cut in twain through their midriff".

Wood pitch (wood tar pitch)

Once known for wood tar and salmon, Oulu has evolved into a major high-tech centre, particularly in IT and wellness technology.

Wood tar is still used to seal traditional wooden boats and the roofs of historical shingle-roofed churches, as well painting exterior walls of log buildings.

They are obtained from coal tar and wood tar, and are colorless, oily liquids or solids.

It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.

The resulting timber was processed at Balmaha (on the site of the Highland Way Inn), for making wood vinegar (pyroligneous acid), wood tar, and dye.

Eupione, or eupion, is a hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, probably a pentane, CH, discovered by Carl Reichenbach in wood tar.

For millennia wood tar was used to waterproof sails and boats, but today sails made from inherently waterproof synthetic substances have negated the need for tar.

Wood tars and pyroligneous acid can be irritant to skin and care should be taken to avoid prolonged skin contact by providing protective clothing and adopting working procedures which minimize exposure.

Pine tar oil, or wood tar oil, is a pure natural product used for the surface treatment of wooden shingle roofs, boats, buckets, and tubs and in the medicine, soap, and rubber industries.

The penetrating odor of creosote was now laced with the musty smell of mold or fungus, neither of which should have been thriving in the presence of timber treated with such pungent wood tar.

From 1719 to 1725, she carried cargo, passengers, and funds from France the French colony in North America and returned with passengers and cargo such as wood, wood tar, and beaver pelts.

An old wood tar oil recipe for the treatment of wood is one-third of each Genuine wood tar, balsam turpentine and boiled or raw linseed oil or Chinese tung oil.

The modern process of carbonizing wood, either in small pieces or as sawdust in cast iron retorts, is extensively practiced where wood is scarce, and also for the recovery of valuable byproducts (wood spirit, pyroligneous acid, wood tar), which the process permits.