Coal tar is a main source of:

Aromatic compounds

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Aliphatic compounds

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Cyclo alkanes

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Hetero cyclic compounds

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Solution

The correct options are
A Aromatic compounds
D Hetero cyclic compounds
Coal tar is obtained by cooling the gas that is formed during the destructive distillation of coal to approximately ambient temperature. It is a black, viscous liquid composed primarily of a complex mixture of condensed-ring aromatic hydrocarbons.
These are mixtures of phenols, polycyclic compounds and Heterocyclic compounds.

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