mineral pitch

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Origin of mineral pitch

First recorded in 1790–1800

Words nearby mineral pitch

mineral kingdom, mineralocorticoid, mineralogy, mineraloid, mineral oil, mineral pitch, minerals, mineral spirits, mineral spring, mineral tar, mineral water

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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.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2|Various
Professor Wright of Yale has used a hard mineral pitch as a cement in vacuum work with success.
On Laboratory Arts|Richard Threlfall
Vegetable 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 Ure
The dull coal is called bituminous, because it contains more bitumen or mineral pitch.
Diggers in the Earth|Eva March Tappan

Bitumen, 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

mineral pitch

noun

another name for asphalt

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