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tar

class of viscous materials
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Summary

tar ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,824 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: building material[2], mixture[3], natural resin[4], Conglomerante[5]
  • Has use: waterproofing[6]
  • Commons category: Tar[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tar[8]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Different from: bitumen[13], pitch[14], goudron[15]
  • Fabrication method: destructive distillation[16], pyrolysis[17]

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Influence

Things named for tar include tarmac[18].

Why It Matters

tar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] tar is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for tar include tarmac[18].

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  1. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Tar
    Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    Aliases → —
    Different from → bitumen, pitch, goudron
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 19346, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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