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bitumen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hydrocarbon |
| Has types | pitch, tar |
| Derivation | bituminize, bituminous |
Examples of bitumen
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It is all bitumen, but you should take great care on it, especially around dusk.
From the couriermail.com.au
For one thing, crude oil tends to float on water, whereas bitumen usually sinks.
From the latimes.com
Paint the inside and outside of both planter and tray using rubber bitumen paint.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Tyres are black, round and stop your alloy wheels from grinding on the bitumen.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
They must then give those two tons a hot wash to strip the bitumen from the sand.
From the guardian.co.uk
The bitumen is then transported and eventually upgraded into synthetic crude oil.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Are you a dedicated bitumen basher or have you fallen in love with trail running?
From the smh.com.au
Only 200-liter roll drums were allowed with waste fixed in concrete or bitumen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Bitumen is actually similar to asphalt and at room temperatures it is a solid.
From the forbes.com
- Any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
- Bitumen is a mixture of organic liquids that are highly viscous, black, sticky, entirely soluble in carbon disulfide, and composed primarily of highly condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
- (Bitumens) An amorphous grouping of resinous and petroleum products: crude oil, amber, asphaltum, coal.
- Term commonly applied to various mixtures of naturally occurring solid or liquid hydrocarbons, excluding coal. These substances are described as bituminous. Asphalt is a bitumen. See Asphalt.
- Hydro-carbon which hardens by the action of light. It was used by Joseph Nicephore Niepce to produce the worlds first photograph in the early 19th century.
- The generic term for an amorphous, semi-solid mixture of complex hydrocarbons derived from any organic source. Asphalt and coal tar are the two used in the roofing industry.
- (1) a class of amorphous, black or dark colored, (solid, semi-solid or viscous) cementitious substances, natural or manufactured, composed principally of high molecular weight hydrocarbons, soluble in carbon disulfide, and found in asphalts, tars, pitches and asphaltites; (2) a generic term used ...
- Can be used as an adhesive under pavers. Made from a combination of asphalts and neoprene.
- A virtually involatile, adhesive and waterproofing material obtained by refinery processes from crude petroleum, or present in natural asphalt deposits in some parts of the world. It is black or brown in colour and completely or nearly completely soluble in toluene. ...
