Wood preservation these pressure treatments routinely protect wood for 40 years in most applications. Creosote was the first wood preservative to gain industrial importance more than 150 years ago and it is still widely used today for protection of industrial timber components where long service life is essential. Creosote is a tar-based preservative that is commonly used for utility poles and railroad ties (UK: railway sleepers). Creosote is one of the oldest wood preservatives, and was originally derived from a wood distillate, but now, virtually all creosote is manufactured from the distillation of coal tar. Creosote is regulated as a pesticide, and
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