A dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons.
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Examples for "asphalt"
Examples for "asphalt"
1Across the way, asphalt-shingled row houses also butted up to the road.
2Its other products include oxidized asphalt, roofing components and synthetic packaging materials.
3On the way home, I thought about the man entombed in asphalt.
4The cars were carrying wheat, barley, beer and liquid asphalt, he said.
5It was very tempting to think: what if we just asphalt it?
1The dull coal is called bituminous, because it contains more bitumen or mineral pitch.
2Professor Wright of Yale has used a hard mineral pitch as a cement in vacuum work with success.
Translations for mineral pitch