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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A brown-to-black, soft, elastic hydrocarbon resin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An elastic mineral resin of a blackish-brown color, subtranslucent, and occurring in soft flexible masses. Also called elastic bitumen and mineral caoutchouc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. mineralogy The mineral wurtzilite.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Min.) A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

Etymologies

  1. -ite (Wiktionary)
  2. elater, elasticity (obsolete) + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Asphalts and bitumens include a wide variety of hydrocarbon materials, such as gilsonite, grahamite, elaterite, ozokerite, etc., which are used for somewhat different purposes.”

    The Economic Aspect of Geology

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  1. elastic bitumen
  1. mineral caoutchouc
  1. pyrobitumen

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