bituminous

[US]/bɪ'tjuːmɪnəs/
[UK]/bə'tʊmənəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. containing or resembling bitumen

Phrases & Collocations

bituminous coal

bituminous pavement

bituminous material

bituminous concrete

Example Sentences

This article concludes the test result and production experience of the internal puddler aboutinjecting the bituminous and anthracite mixed coal.

UINTAITE Mastic Asphalt is an excellent natural bituminous material, which can improve the performance of asphalt pavement when mixed with conventional asphalt mixture.

Real-world Examples

With his second explosion, Cai has taken the work, and us, into a different world - deep bituminous darkness now mantles everything.

Source: BBC documentary "Civilization"

Then, among this basaltic rock, there snaked long, hardened lava flows inlaid with veins of bituminous coal and in places covered by wide carpets of sulfur.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

His specimens are kept passably fresh, too, by the purity of the air and the resiny bituminous beds into which they are pressed.

Source: Summer walks through the mountains.

Enormous fields of bituminous lay in those Appalachian ranges extending from Pennsylvania to Alabama, in Michigan, in the Rocky Mountains, and in the Pacific regions.

Source: The Era of Big Business

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