Bitumen (UK: /ˈbɪtʃʊmɪn/ BIH-chuum-in, US: /bɪˈtjuːmɪn, baɪ-/ bih-TEW-min, by-) is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its exact...
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Oil sands (redirect from Crude bitumen)
sand, clay, and water, soaked with bitumen (a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum). Significant bitumen deposits are reported in Canada, Kazakhstan...
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Bitumen of Judea is a naturally occurring asphalt used since antiquity as a wood colorant, and in early photography as a light-sensitive coating. Bitumen...
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Shilajit (redirect from Ashphaltum bitumen)
stone and mountain oils, Antarctic shilajit, lofor, or aqua bitum. balsam bitumen of Judea creosote elaterite mummia ozokerite propolis resin wax Wilson...
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Athabasca oil sands (redirect from Athabasca bitumen)
known as the Athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of oil sands rich in bitumen, a heavy and viscous form of petroleum, in northeastern Alberta, Canada...
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Asphalt concrete (redirect from Bitumen macadam)
called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite...
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Dilbit (redirect from Diluted bitumen)
(diluted bitumen) is a bitumen diluted with one or more lighter petroleum products, typically natural-gas condensates such as naphtha. Diluting bitumen makes...
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Bitumen-based fuel is fuel specifically developed for industrial use. Raw bitumen, processed from Bituminous rocks, has an extremely high viscosity. Bitumen...
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"powdered human mummies". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine...
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Orimulsion (section Source of the bitumen)
Orimulsion is a registered trademark name for a bitumen-based fuel that was developed for industrial use by Intevep, the Research and Development Affiliate...
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Bituminous geomembrane (redirect from Bitumen geomembrane)
reinforcing geotextile to provide mechanical strength and elastomeric bitumen (often called asphalt in U.S.) to provide impermeability. Other components...
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durability is a result of higher bitumen content, a thicker bitumen film, and lower air voids content. This high bitumen content also improves flexibility...
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asphalt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Asphalt most often refers to: Bitumen, also known as "liquid asphalt cement" or simply "asphalt", a viscous form...
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bitumen from oil sands. Petroleum geologists categorize bitumen from oil sands as 'extra-heavy oil' due to its density of less than 10° API. Bitumen is...
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systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings. Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a material made up of organic liquids that...
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a naturally occurring soluble solid hydrocarbon, a form of asphalt (or bitumen) with a relatively high melting temperature. Its large-scale production...
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Sturgeon Refinery also NWR Sturgeon Refinery is an 80,000 bbl/d (13,000 m3/d) bitumen refinery built and operated by North West Redwater Partnership (NWRP) in...
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The Refined Bitumen Association is the trade association for UK bitumen companies. It was formed in 1968. In 2000, it formed the Asphalt Industry Alliance...
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Ethylene Copolymer Bitumen (ECB) is a black-colored mixture based on high quality polyethylene copolymers with different proportions of various special...
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petroleum, coal tar, or plants. Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its...
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Chipseals are constructed by evenly distributing a thin base of hot tar, bitumen or asphalt onto an existing pavement and then embedding finely graded aggregate...
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Shungite (category Bitumen-impregnated rocks)
interpreted as migrated petroleum, now in the form of metamorphosed bitumen. Solid-bitumen shungite is predominantly amorphous, though as with many carbon...
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Nynas AB is a Swedish manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen products. Founded in 1928 as a national oil company with a traditional range...
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an enhanced oil recovery technology for producing heavy crude oil and bitumen. It is an advanced form of steam stimulation in which a pair of horizontal...
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Niépce was the fact that the bitumen coating became less soluble after it had been left exposed to light. Niépce dissolved bitumen in lavender oil, a solvent...
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4 in × 8.0 in) pewter plate thinly coated with bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt. The bitumen hardened in the brightly lit areas, but in the...
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Pyrobitumen (category Bitumen-impregnated rocks)
soluble organic matter (i.e., bitumen) insoluble. Not all solid bitumens are pyrobitumens, in that some solid bitumens (e.g., gilsonite) are soluble in...
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appeared dark and the bitumen relatively light. In partnership, Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône and Louis Daguerre in Paris refined the bitumen process, substituting...
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technologies to the world market and supplies complete process plants for: bitumen (Biturox), solvent deasphalting (SDA Plus), dewaxing and deoiling (Dewaxing...
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of a number of highly viscous liquids which appear solid, most commonly bitumen, also known as asphalt. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very...
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