Definition of Bituminizing

1. Verb. (present participle of bituminize) ¹

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Definition of Bituminizing

1. bituminize [v] - See also: bituminize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bituminizing

bitumina
bituminate
bituminated
bituminates
bituminating
bituminiferous
bituminise
bituminised
bituminises
bituminising
bituminization
bituminizations
bituminize
bituminized
bituminizes
bituminizing (current term)
bituminoid
bituminous
bituminous coal
bituminous sand
bituminous sands
bituminouses
bitwise
bityite
bitzer
biuncinate
biundulant meningoencephalitis
biunique
biuniqueness
biuniquenesses

Literary usage of Bituminizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions by North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers., Gerard H. Matthes (1882)
"As to this de- bituminizing of coal, the assumption that the coal had been, one way or another, baked by the heat, might partly account for it. ..."

2. Footprints of the Creator: Or the Asterolepis of Stromness by Hugh Miller (1872)
"... save in minute patches, where they have been injured by compression or the bituminizing process. All the tubes indicated by the openings are, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The first of these was the process of evisceration, cleansing, <fcc., which occupied 16 or 16 days ; the second was the salting or bituminizing, and took 19 ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1907)
"... which the vegetable matter was subject, either before or after burial, and on the degree to which the bituminizing process has been carried. Iron Ore. ..."

5. The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its by Lewis Publishing Company (1892)
"... the West End park; the the Lake Merritt boulevard; the macadamizing and bituminizing of ¡>treets and the perfecting of the city's sidewalks, ..."

6. Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical by Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1860)
"... save in minute patches, where they have been injured by compression or the bituminizing process. All the tubes indicated by the openings are, ..."

7. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1815)
"He shows that heat is incapable of bituminizing wood, but that it converts jet into coal. Many other very ingenious hypotheses respecting the origin of the ..."

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