mineral pitch
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How to use mineral pitch in a sentence
Asphalt, or Asphaltum, the most common variety of bitumen; also called mineral pitch.
Professor Wright of Yale has used a hard mineral pitch as a cement in vacuum work with success.
On Laboratory Arts | Richard ThrelfallVegetable or mineral pitch, applied hot with a brush, as in making tarpauling for covering goods in ships.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew UreThe dull coal is called bituminous, because it contains more bitumen or mineral pitch.
Diggers in the Earth | Eva March TappanBitumen, or mineral pitch, was regularly applied to this purpose, even by Elizabethan seamen.
The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest Weekley
British Dictionary definitions for mineral pitch
another name for asphalt
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