 ... on the application of heat to a viscous liquid: while a maltha or soft asphalt may be defined as a soft bitumen, consisting of alicyclic hydrocarbons, which, on heating, or by other natural causes, becomes converted into asphalt. The line between...  Biennial Report - Page 163by Utah. Conservation Commission - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Forest reserves - 1901 - 658 pages
...causes, becomes converted into asphalt. The line between the two classes can not be sharply drawn. "Bitumen," also, is a term that has been omitted from...although its adjective, "bituminous," is employed. The word "bitumen," the original derivation of which the writer has been unable to discover, has in the... | |
 | Geology - 1903 - 988 pages
...causes, becomes converted into asphalt. The line between the two classes can not be sharply drawn. "Bitumen," also, is a term that has been omitted from...although its adjective, "bituminous," is employed. The word "In the original report the word "or" WBH inadvertently placed after instead of l>efore • polycyclic."... | |
 | Geological Survey (U.S.) - Geology - 1903 - 464 pages
...causes, becomes converted into asphalt. The line between the two classes can not be sharply drawn. " Bitumen," also, is a term that has been omitted from...although its adjective, "bituminous," is employed. The word "In the original report the word "or" was inadvertently placed after instead of before " polycyclic."... | |
 | Samuel Franklin Emmons - Geology, Economic - 1903 - 462 pages
...causes, becomes converted into asphalt. The line between the two classes can not be sharply drawn. " Bitumen," also, is a term that has been omitted from...although its adjective, "bituminous," is employed. The word "In the original report tho word "or" was inadvertently placed after inxt««d of before "polycyclic."... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Commissioners of Accounts - Asphalt - 1904 - 258 pages
...becomes converted into asphalt. The line between the two " classes cannot be sharply drawn." 81. " Bitumen " also is a term that has been omitted from...although its adjective " bituminous " is employed. The word " bitumen " has, in the main, been used to include the three varieties of hydrocarbon compounds... | |
 | Coal mines and mining - 1913 - 564 pages
...Capolite. Amboite, etc. Dzocertie. Hatchettite, etc. Fichtelite. Hastite, etc. Bitumen and Asphalt urn. It will be observed that some of the commonest terms...than special, and for all practical purposes it is synonomous with "asphaltum," both of these words being applied to the series of pure or nearly pure... | |
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