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Bitumen

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bi=tu=men

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Bitumen has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

Bitumenn. [L. bitumen: cf. F. bitume. Cf. Béton.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Bitumen, n.
1 any of various tarlike mixtures of hydrocarbons derived from petroleum naturally or by distillation and used for road surfacing and roofing.
2 Austral. colloq. a tarred road.

Etymology
L bitumen -minis

ROGET THESAURUS

Bitumen

Resin

N resin, rosin, gum, lac, sealing wax, amber, ambergris, bitumen, pitch, tar, asphalt, asphaltum, camphor, varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan, artificial resin, polymer, ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite, Dowex, Diaion, resiny, resinous, bituminous, pitchy, tarry, asphaltic, asphaltite.

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