Bitumen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BITUMEN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) naturally occurring asphalt from the Middle East, used as mortar etc.
• a black viscous mixture of hydrocarbons obtained naturally or as a residue from petroleum distillation. It is used for road surfacing and roofing.
• a tarred road surface
• black sticky substance obtained from tar or petrol
• Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew\'s pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See Asphalt.
• By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
• any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an asphalt

Words related to BITUMEN

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Words that contain BITUMEN

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How to use BITUMEN in a sentence

• This chemical is full of bitumen and is so fiery that whatever it touches it is sure to burn to a cinder, and it can not be extinguished by any liquid.
• Bitumen and naphtha were produced by sources in the low country.
• Bitumen and naphtha were yielded by sources near Dalaki, which were certainly known to the ancients.
• The bitumen is of excellent quality, and was largely employed by the ancients.
• Among the mineral products of Assyria, bitumen, naphtha, petroleum, sulphur, alum, and salt have also to be reckoned.
• Bitumen is also produced largely in some parts, particularly at Hit, where are the inexhaustible springs which have made that spot famous in all ages.
• All the bricks composing the buttresses are inscribed, and are very firmly cemented together with bitumen, in thick layers.
• The material used in its construction was burnt brick, the outer layer imbedded in bitumen, and the remainder in a cement of mud.
• The floors of the chambers were paved with burnt brick, laid in bitumen.
• We may perhaps assume that at first they were either canoes hollowed out of a palm-trunk, or reed fabrics made water-tight by a coating of bitumen.
• Its banks were lined throughout with quays of brick laid in bitumen, and were further guarded by two walls of brick, which skirted them along their whole length.
• When brick walls were cemented with bitumen they were given great stability.
• Felt covered with bitumen is an excellent substitute for asphalt, and is not liable to crack or squeeze out.
• The strata of fossil coal are found in almost every intermediate state, as well as in those of bitumen and charcoal.
• I have a specimen of such a cavity, in which the bitumen is in sphericles, or rounded drops, immersed in the calcareous spar.
• The spores are more or less composed of pure bitumen, and the bituminous nature of the coal depends largely on the presence or absence of these microscopic bodies in it.
• You are aware of the self-consciousness of Chicago as soon as you are aware of its bitumen.
• Nothing execrable was wanting, neither military scenes full of little leaden soldiers, nor wan antiquity, nor the middle ages, smeared, as it were, with bitumen.
• Men were around him whose clothes were shining with bitumen.

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