Crossword-Solution: BITUMEN
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| Bitumen | n. | 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. |
| Bitumen | n. | 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. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “BITUMEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| black sticky substance obtained from tar or petrol | 1 answer |
| TARRED road | 1 answer |
| TAR-seal product | 1 answer |
| Natural asphalt. | 1 answer |
| Mineral asphalt. | 1 answer |
| Material for road surfacing, roofing, etc. | 1 answer |
| MIXTURE of tar-like hydrocarbons derived from petroleum | 1 answer |
| A black substance obtained from petrol | 1 answer |
| LINOLEUM paper backing, constituent of | 1 answer |
| BLACK tarlike hydrocarbon derived from petroleum | 1 answer |
| Road-surface material | 2 answers |
| Asphalt component | 2 answers |
| Asphalt ingredient | 2 answers |
| COAL tar residue | 2 answers |
| HOT melt adhesive | 3 answers |
| CARBON product | 4 answers |
| Road surfacing material | 4 answers |
| MASTIC, constituent of | 6 answers |
| Blacktop | 6 answers |
| inflammable substance | 6 answers |
| PIPELINE-carried product | 7 answers |
| Road surface | 11 answers |
| ASPHALT ___ | 18 answers |
| Roofing material | 24 answers |
| Resin | 31 answers |
| Tar | 35 answers |
| Tar product | 35 answers |
| Pitch | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BITUMEN (5)
Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum And native sulphur and Idaean pitch, Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black.
Anthrax.] A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame.
Deep in between the coils and braids it was of a bitumen brownness, but in the sunlight it vibrated with a sheen like tarnished gold.
Far down in the east a small black smudge upon the pearl-colored and vaporous horizon was all they could discern of a walled city filled with factories for the working of hemp and furs and alum and silk and bitumen.
Some were for fires, but that they must be made of wood and not coal, and of particular sorts of wood too, such as fir in particular, or cedar, because of the strong effluvia of turpentine; others were for coal and not wood, because of the sulphur and bitumen; and others were for neither one or other.
Quotes with BITUMEN (3)
By posing climate change as a battle between capitalism and the planet, I am not saying anything that we don't already know. the battle is already under way, but right now capitalism is winning hands down. it wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, of for breaking emission reduction commitments already made. it wins when Greeks are told that their only path out of economic crises is to open up their beautifu…
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell’s argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world’s ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the…
The reality is that Rachel Notley's adherence to pipelines and exporting raw bitumen doesn't make sense for Alberta's economy and it doesn't make sense for Canada.
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).