BITUMEN
\bˈɪt͡ʃuːmən], \bˈɪtʃuːmən], \b_ˈɪ_tʃ_uː_m_ə_n]\
Definitions of BITUMEN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
By Oddity Software
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Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
By Noah Webster.
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A name used for various substances found in the earth, which are easily set on fire and have a strong smell; mineral pitch.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A name applied to various inflammable mineral substances, as naphtha, petroleum, asphaltum.
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BITUMINOUS.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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