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Mineral pitch   /mˈɪnərəl pɪtʃ/   Listen
Mineral pitch

noun
1.
A dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons.  Synonym: asphalt.





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... tissue. The sun-force must stay, shut up age after age, invisible, but strong; working at its own prison-cells; transmuting them, or making them capable of being transmuted by man, into the manifold products of coal—coke, petroleum, mineral pitch, gases, coal-tar, benzole, delicate aniline dyes, and what not, till its day of ...
— Town Geology • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Mineral pitch" :   asphalt, mineral


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