Creosote particularly used in dentistry to destroy tissues and arrest necrosis. Coal-tar creosote is the most widely used wood treatment today; both industrially, processed into wood using pressure methods such as "full-cell process" or "empty-cell process", and more commonly applied to wood through brushing. In addition to toxicity to fungi, insects, and marine borers, it serves as a natural water repellant. It is commonly used to preserve and waterproof cross ties, pilings, telephone poles, power line poles, marine pilings, and fence posts. Although suitable for use in preserving the structural timbers of buildings, it is not generally used that way because
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