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Definition of Bitumens
1. bitumen [n] - See also: bitumen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitumens
Literary usage of Bitumens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"bitumens. Mineral products consisting essentially of a complex mixture of ...
The origin of the bitumens or mineral hydrocarbons is, in many cases, ..."
2. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"Under certain circumstances it will convert the solid bitumens into a liquid
state and thus enable them to be acted upon by the various forces considered ..."
3. Dust Preventives and Road Binders by Prévost Hubbard (1910)
"A slight modification of Richardson's definition of native bitumens has, ...
According to this definition, bitumens may be described as consisting of a ..."
4. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"Of the following divisions, group A consists of crude artificial bitumens »•hose
refined products arc covered by group ('. (¡roup В covers refined products ..."
5. Good Roads Year Book by American Highway Association (1917)
"ASPHALT AND NATIVE SOLID bitumens' The following definition of "asphalt" has been
adopted by the American Society for Testing Materials: Solid or semi-solid ..."
6. American Highway Engineers' Handbook by Arthur Horace Blanchard (1919)
"Artificial and Refined bitumens and Bituminous Materials Groups. The artificial
and refined bitumens mid bituminous materials "f direct interest in highway ..."
7. Chemical and Geological Essays by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1875)
"The characters of fusibility and solubility in liquids like benzole and sulphuret
of carbon, serve to distinguish the solid bitumens from coal and some ..."
8. The Modern Asphalt Pavement by Clifford Richardson (1908)
"ALL the native bitumens are such complicated mixtures of various ... The physical
properties which are of value in characterizing the bitumens are: ..."
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