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He was attempting to manufacture quinine from aniline, an inexpensive and readily available coal tar waste product.
Utilising the cheap and plentiful coal tar that was an almost unlimited byproduct of London's gas street lighting, the dye works began producing the world's first synthetically dyed material in 1857.

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Open the tool →煤焦油 (méi jiāo yóu) means “coal tar”.
煤焦油 is pronounced méi jiāo yóu in Mandarin Chinese.
“coal tar” is 煤焦油 (méi jiāo yóu) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 煤焦油, each with pinyin and an English translation.