mineral pitch

noun

1. asphalt.

mineral pitch

noun

1. another name for asphalt

Word History and Origins

Origin of mineral pitch¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

Asphalt, or Asphaltum, the most common variety of bitumen; also called mineral pitch.

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Professor Wright of Yale has used a hard mineral pitch as a cement in vacuum work with success.

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Vegetable or mineral pitch, applied hot with a brush, as in making tarpauling for covering goods in ships.

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The dull coal is called bituminous, because it contains more bitumen or mineral pitch.

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Bitumen, or mineral pitch, was regularly applied to this purpose, even by Elizabethan seamen.

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