Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The transformation of organic matters into bitumen, as the conversion of wood by natural processes into several varieties of coal. Also spelled
bituminisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of bituminizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
bituminizing .
Etymologies
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Compare French bituminisation.
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Examples
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Its varieties depend on the perfection to which the peculiar change called bituminization has been carried, and also, as shown in the table below, on the degree to which the volatile substances and water have escaped, and on the per cent of carbon remaining.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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