How To Use Bitumen In A Sentence

Insects swarm about the damp light of the street-lamps, their buzzings reflected very slightly in the bitumen below your feet.
One relatively recent roofing improvement is the development of self-adhered modified bitumen and other self-adhered membrane roofing products.
Bitumen emulsions are a dispersion of bitumen in an aqueous continuous phase, stabilised by the addition of an emulsifier.
Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
The bituminous material at each site was dense bituminous macadam, which typically had a bitumen content of 4.0-4.5%.

This turned the organic matter into liquid bitumen, which squeezed into pores and fractures in the rock.
Early investigators recognized bitumen (referred to then as carbon) as having a strong spatial relationship with gold, uraninite and pyrite.
The fluids are forced into a small gap between the rotor and the stator where they experience strong shear forces, which causes the molten bitumen to break into minute particles.
Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
If the material is accidentally punctured, it can be repaired quickly using mylar tape and bitumen.
Now, in the peninsula of Araya, and in the island of Marguerita, saliferous clay impregnated with bitumen is met with in connexion with this early formation, nearly as gem-salt appears in Calabria in flakes, in basins inclosed in strata of granite and gneiss. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
An exception is where scrap rubber is incorporated using high percentages in bitumen as scrap rubber reduces road-tyre noise.
The grandstands, which ring the southern and western sides of the arena, are old fashioned red brick, with crumbling black bitumen leading to the fence line.
They were built on ground which abounded, doubtless, as all that region now does, in bitumen or naphtha, which is easily kindled, and which burns with great intensity. Barnes New Testament Notes
But if you wish to effect the cure by suppositories, take the shell of the part fish a third part of plumbago, bitumen, alum, a little of the flos aeris, galls, a little verdigris; having poured a small quantity of boiled honey on these, and formed an oblong suppository, apply until you remove them. On Hemorrhoids
The bitumen melted on the road outside and stuck to our thongs - it was the first summer I remember I actually chose to wear shoes - even the bindi-eyes burnt through your calluses.
When the bitumen emulsion is in contact with the surface of the mineral aggregate, bitumen droplets must preferentially flocculate onto the mineral surface if the emulsion is to break and spread over the surface.
Emulsions are obtained by dispersing bitumen in water with the help of an emulsifier, which is either of an anionic or a cationic kind. Chapter 10
Fancy a pagne or skirt all formed of little strips of material bedizened with red and black hieroglyphics, stiffened with bitumen, and apparently belonging to a freshly unbandaged mummy.
The dull coal is called bituminous, because it contains more bitumen or mineral pitch. Diggers in the Earth
One of the curiosities of the Ironbridge Gorge was a spring of natural bitumen discovered in 1786.
He was the technical services engineer for a bitumen company, delighting in tales of tarry deposits and exploding tankers.
There are three different application techniques for modified bitumen: torching, hot-mopping and cold-applied.
The crude petroleum is heat-extracted from a mixture of bitumen, sand, water, and clay in an open-pit mining operation.
The nerve shattering noise was from a petrol driven concrete and bitumen cutting saw so loud that all workers were wearing ear muffs.
It is a seriously windy and interesting piece of bitumen.
Moisture under an asphalt built-up or modified bitumen roof system will leach plasticizing oils out of the membrane, making it prematurely brittle.
These days the Trace is a bitumen road, grass verges neatly manicured and mowed for mile after funereal mile.
In the absence of surface dressing, dense bitumen macadam tends to polish and become dangerous.
It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface.
How good a road is going to be depends on how the design is laid out initially vis-a-vis the layer of bitumen, macadam, coat of slurry seal or fog seal.
The bituminous material at each site was dense bituminous macadam, which typically had a bitumen content of 4.0-4.5%.
A cool desert wind wrapped us in dust as we sped along the bitumen.
Cement sheets are also impregnated with bitumen or acrylate protective coatings to become waterproof All of these materials are manufactured in India directly. 1. Introduction
At ambient temperature, bitumen is a highly viscous to almost solid substance that is extremely difficult to work with.
Bitumen can, however, be transferred into a workable state by applying heat, by blending with petroleum solvents or by emulsification in water to form a bitumen emulsion.
The appellant was walking towards her on the side of the roadway but near the edge of the bitumen carriageway.
Likewise, Augie March, Archie Roach and Rubie Hunter ride the burning bitumen in Buddy Miller style searching for the Minister of Planets somewhere off the Newell.
Bitumen and aggregate materials useful for building of highways are well known.
I sealed the seams inside the wheelarch with a bitumen sealant and then undersealed the wheelarches.
The Low Latin equivalent of the Arabic _tubb [= a] q_ "styptic," is _bitumen_, whence The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
Glad he was when, at length, after this wild race, he beheld the holy man who had led it standing in front of a cavern, with a large torch in his hand, composed of a piece of wood dipped in bitumen, which cast a broad and flickering light, and emitted a strong sulphureous smell. The Talisman
Most of us live in stone houses and aspire to live in converted stone barns, we walk on stone pavements and often drive on roads where beneath the black bitumen lie beautifully dressed stone setts.
One lane of a motorway interchange will remain closed for up to two days after the smash yesterday in which a tanker carrying hot bitumen came off an M60 slip road and landed on a roundabout, hitting two cars and a lorry.
Riders were hoping for a fast ride on bitumen for the last leg of the trip to Marlo, then back to Orbost, but a howling head wind and light rain changed those plans.
The contractors immediately offered to pay for new tyres to replace those caked in bitumen.
The strategic associations convert the extra heavy crude and bitumen from approximately 9° API to lighter, sweeter crude, known as syncrude, at the Jose refinery complex on Venezuela’s northern coast. Energy profile of Venezuela
Ambergris was long supposed to be a fossil, a vegetable which grew upon the sea-bottom or rose in springs; or a “substance produced in the water like naphtha or bitumen” (!): now it is known to be the egesta of a whale. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A commercial waste-to-oil refinery plant is in operation today that takes in waste material and converts it into golden oil, free of sulfur and bitumen (better known as asphalted tars), in a continuous process. Vast New Oil Reserve Found in the U.S.
Oil sands operations, however, produced the overwhelming bulk of several dangerous substances: for example, bitumen mines generated nearly all of the Canadian total of acenaphthene, one of a bevy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons released around Fort McMurray. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Both Clearwater West and East are in the McMurray formation bitumen sand isopach Undefined
The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.
Then the tar has to be "upgraded" into synthetic petroleum via a process that involves "conditioning,""separation" into a bitumen froth, then "deaeration" to take out gases, and finally injection into a dual-system centrifuge that removes the last of the solids. The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: The Sticky Truth about Oil Spills and Tar Sands
Surface dressing involves a coating of bitumen being sprayed onto the road surface, followed by layers of hard stone chippings.
Thus, the selection of the emulsifier used in the preparation of bitumen emulsions is a critical factor in road making applications.
In the gray light, his eyes were as dense and impenetrable as coal or the hard bitumen on which they stood. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
Friday morning's ride was sedate after the thrills of the previous day starting with a relaxed ride on bitumen from Combienbar to Club terrace and a stop at the local hall for tea and cakes.
Once out of the prelude stage in Alice the ride avoided any bitumen and wound its way through Arltunga, across the Plenty, deep into north Queensland before arriving at Karanda and the downhill drop into Cairns.
These roots burrow through bitumen as if it were butter, and often the trees have to be expensively removed before they completely ruin the driveway.
Kids catapult along bitumen like suckers for punishment.
That underlay has now been surfaced with bitumen and chippings and has improved the structure and surface of the road.
The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
The plastic is then shredded and mixed with asphalt to form a compound called polymerized bitumen. Daily News & Analysis
In the camera was a polished pewter plate coated with a petroleum product called bitumen of Judea.
This turned the organic matter into liquid bitumen, which squeezed into pores and fractures in the rock.
The dense bitumen macadam surface, in the absence of any other dressing, tends to polish and became dangerous, particularly after rain.
Ma'dan have few possessions, typically just a few water buffalo, a gun, some blankets and cooking utensils, and a reed canoe coated with bitumen (tar).
The extraction process begins here, where solvent and water begin to separate bitumen from sand and clay.
We had an uninteresting march next day, over desert and many stones, up and down hill, past a village called Ghaida, and went somewhat out of our way to see a rock with bitumen or asphalte oozing out of it. Southern Arabia
The strong adhesion that occurs between the bitumen and mineral aggregate enables the bitumen to act as a binder, with the mineral aggregate providing mechanical strength for the road.
That underlay has now been surfaced with bitumen and chippings and has improved the structure and surface of the road.
Tank terminal with 81 tanks with total storage volume of 3,45,624 kiloliter for storage of various liquids like edible oils, petroleum products, bitumen in bulk and chemicals. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Parramatta residents were treated to the thud of 600 boots on bitumen, the purr of diesels from six tracked armoured personnel carriers, the drone of engines of two RAAF.
For few people now live in the area, and the lane has become a short cut, a speed track between Basuki Rakhmad and Pemuda, the two great bitumen rivers trisecting the centre of East Java's capital Surabaya.
Bitumen is a generic term for natural or manufactured black or dark-colored solid, semisolid, or viscous cementitious materials that are composed mainly of high-molecular weight hydrocarbons. Asphalt
Industry preparation of bitumen emulsions often requires that acid (commonly hydrochloric or phosphoric acid) be used as part of the emulsion formulation.
By now any competent restorer should know that bitumen underseal is not the product to use.
Thus, the presence of bitumen in correlative parts of the sections is presumably due to the ability of similar shale lithologies to trap and hold bitumen as hydrocarbons migrate through the basin.
The skate set-up included a metal three piece mini, gnarly street section of bitumen and wooden ramps and the mass indoor park course, which was gold.
It might turn out that there is enough flat roof at the top of your flat to pour thousands of pounds worth of bitumen, asphalt and lead onto.
The solvents act to decrease the viscosity of the bitumen making it more workable.
Hydrocarbons range from natural gas, through light and heavy liquids to solid tars and bitumen.
It belongs to the same family of substances as asphalt or bitumen.
The alert follows a flood of complaints about itinerant traders who charge extortionate prices for bitumen coverings for drives.
He made the point that a dense bitumen macadam base course was not designed to be skid resistant and he was not aware of any specification for skid resistance on a base course.
The Research Station, established in 1957, has four laboratories, which deal with soils and foundation engineering, concrete and structures, bitumen and traffic.
Roof felts are essentially scrap paper bonded together with bitumen, a waste oil product that is put on the felt to saturate it.
Then the tar has to be "upgraded" into synthetic petroleum via a process that involves "conditioning," "separation" into a bitumen froth, then "deaeration" to take out gases, and finally injection into a dual-system centrifuge that removes the last of the solids. The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: The Sticky Truth about Oil Spills and Tar Sands
Canada is becoming increasingly important as the world's leading producer of oil sands, or bitumen -- a thick, gooey, viscous material that must be dug out of the ground and treated in various energy-intensive ways before it can be converted into synthetic petroleum fuel (synfuel). Michael T. Klare: It's Official -- The Era of Cheap Oil Is Over
His lower teeth were stained brown from nicotine and bitumen coffee. BLOOD IS DIRT
Unlike the flowing reserves that are pumped out of Dallas, oil sands are actually deposits of bitumen - a tar-like mixture of petroleum hydrocarbons that are attached to sand.
-- The same Captain of Engineers has undertaken a series of very interesting experiments on the sensitiveness to light of one or two substances to which bitumen probably owes its sensitiveness, but which, contrary to what takes place with bitumen, are capable of rendering very beautiful half tones, both on polished zinc and on albumenized paper. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881
Unlike the bitumen used in builtup systems, the bitumen in modified bitumen systems is modified with polymers in order to increase the elasticity and strength of the finished roof.
There are thousands of outback journeys in Australia - on bitumen and dirt, across deserts and mountains, along the coast and inland, long and short, tough and easy.
What also comes out of the analysis is the fact that the impact that kills these motorcyclists and pillion passengers is the unprotected skull bouncing down the bitumen.
Supposedly, roads laid with a mixture of recycled plastic and bitumen were more durable because of the water-resistant characteristic of plastic.
The adhesive properties of bitumen determine its viscidity and adhesive properties.
When used as the top layer, they are frequently factory surfaced with granules or bitumen, eliminating the need for field surfacing later on.
Today, the main use of bitumen is in the road making industry for construction and maintenance.
The bitumen-surfaced path has been created by buying a strip of land along the edge of the field next to the road.
Another method employed the substance called collyrium; this is a preparation of pitch, bitumen, pounded glass, wax, and mastic.
Bitumen - a form of heavy, thick oil laden with sulphur and deficient in hydrogen - can be refined into synthetic crude oil to make everything from gasoline to plastics.
For Nigeria, this presents significant opportunities to exploit the known reserves of gold, tantalite , lead, zinc and bitumen, plus a range of industrial minerals.
The firepan, the kindling, the bitumen were his own; but the lumber, of rags, old wood and nameless combustible rubbish (for all is fuel to him), was gathered from huckster, and ass-panniers, of every description under heaven. The French Revolution
The researchers used infrared spectrometry to analyze the heliograph's bitumen layer, too.
Isola said the focus will be on seven minerals: coal, bitumen, limestone, iron ore, barytes, gold and lead/zinc, selected for their importance to Nigeria's economy and their availability in amounts sufficient to sustain mining operations for several years. ANC Daily News Briefing
The overflow car park will not be lit and it will be surfaced with reinforced grass rather than bitumen while 160 parking spaces to the north of the clubhouse have been moved to protect the privacy of Knotty Ash Farm.
The article introduces rubber bitumen self - adhered membrane and the working mechanism of its pre - laid application.
I kicked the spinifex growing through the bitumen and gazed mournfully at the old projectors.
The road becomes a strip of bitumen flanked at first by banana trees, then by an array of she-oaks.
We sat in exhaust-fumigated traffic for what seemed like hours without moving, inching our way through Galway as tar squelched under rubber, producing that pungent smell of bitumen and oil.
The fine-grained sediment of the matrix is composed chiefly of siderite, with lesser amounts of illite, calcite, quartz, and bitumen.
That's in the dry season: In the wet roads are flooded from door to door, so pavement, verge, drain and bitumen merge into a seamless black scum where floating objects best remain unscrutinised.
Cement sheets are impregnated with bitumen or acrylate protective coatings to make them water-tight. 1. Introduction
A dusty street would have been ideal, but bitumen was acceptable.
One of the largest integrated petroleum companies in Canada, the company is a major producer of natural gas, natural gas liquids and bitumen, and the country's largest producer of sulphur.
Corporation officials say that delay in sanctioning funds and the unavailability of bitumen had held up tarring for over eight months.
Cationic bitumen emulsions break by means of physicochemical interactions between the emulsion particles and the mineral aggregate.
Pamela Brown said as she and her partner drove south on the Stuart Highway, a big white vehicle had pulled from the side of the road onto the bitumen, heading north.
The road surface was tarmacadam, a bitumen surface with a 14 mm aggregate close graded wearing course.
The playground would not affect the streetscape as ‘we would rip up bitumen and put down turf and shrubs.’

How To Use Bitumen In A Sentence

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