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US
/bɪˈtumənəs/
]
[ UK /baɪtjˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
[ UK /baɪtjˈuːmɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
resembling or containing bitumen
bituminous coal
How To Use bituminous In A Sentence
- But the environmental consequences of developing oil sands - bituminous lakes that contain sand, water and heavy crude oil - are breathtaking. Times, Sunday Times
- There were a few victories, mostly as a result of an intense organizing campaign in the bituminous districts of western Pennsylvania, but there were many more failures, in Pennsylvania and throughout the coal regions of Appalachia.
- The roof canopy is made up of stainless steel composite panels bonded to a bituminous rolled sheet over plywood.
- Peats will in situ change successively to lignite, to bituminous coal, and eventually to anthracite.
- Environments where bituminous mudrocks may form are waterlogged mires, swamp and bogs, stratified lakes and marine water with restricted circulation including backswamp conditions furthest from the fluvial channel.
- It has greater density than the lignites or subbituminous coals, is black, more brittle, and breaks with a cubical or conchoidal fracture. The Economic Aspect of Geology
- Stretching bituminously through patriotic wheatland past discount full-retail and Injun casinos from Coconut Groves to Golden Gates, like licorice taffy, we'll gobble it by the mile. Blacktop
- The digesters of such plants are usually made of masonry, with paraffin or bituminous paint applied to the gas-flled area in order to make it gastight. 5. Biogas technique
- Oil shale is sedimentary rock that contains solid bituminous materials -- called kerogen -- that are released as petroleum-like liquids when the rock is heated. Local News RSS from The Detroit News
- Bituminous may be distinguished from subbituminous by the manner of weathering. The Economic Aspect of Geology