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Coal tar is distilled into a number of fractions. The residue is called pitch.

This historically important process has been overtaken by petrochemistry.

Alan Heaton (Ed.) An Introduction to Industrial Chemistry, Blackie (1996)
Coal Tar
         
Pitch
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Coal tar     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
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Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Fractional Distillation
Industrial Process: Organic

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