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  1. The chief source of naphthalene is
    1. Coal-tar
    2. Diesel
    3. Charcoal
    4. Camphor
Correct Option: A

Coal tar is a brown or black liquid of extremely high viscosity. In the coal gas era, there were many companies in Britain whose business was to distill coal tar to separate the higher-value fractions, such as naphtha, creosote and pitch. Naphthalene is derived from a kind of naphtha (a broad term encompassing any volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture, including coal tar).



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