Creosote name is derived . The two main kinds recognized in industry are coal-tar creosote and wood-tar creosote. The coal-tar variety, having stronger and more toxic properties, has chiefly been used as a preservative for wood; coal-tar creosote was also formerly used as an escharotic, to burn malignant skin tissue, and in dentistry, to prevent necrosis, before its carcinogenic properties became known. The wood-tar variety has been used for meat preservation, ship treatment, and such medical purposes as an anaesthetic, antiseptic, astringent, expectorant, and laxative, though these have mostly been replaced by modern formulations. Varieties of creosote have also been made
English words of Greek origin and spread to the others freely—including to Modern Greek. Traditionally, these coinages were constructed using only Greek morphemes, "e.g.", "metamathematics", but increasingly, Greek, Latin, and other morphemes are combined, as in "television" (Greek τῆλε + Latin "vision"), "metalinguistic" (Greek μετά + Latin "lingua" + Greek -ιστής + Greek -ικος), and "garbology" (English "garbage" + Greek -ολογία). These hybrid words were formerly considered to be 'barbarisms'. Some derivations are idiosyncratic, for example, "gas" from χάος; "hadron" from ἁδρός with the suffix "-on", itself abstracted from "anion" ἀνιόν; and "henotheism" < ἑνό(ς) 'one' + θεός 'god', though "eno-" is not used as