pissasphalt
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pissasphaltus, from Ancient Greek πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos), from πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”) + ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt”).
Noun edit
pissasphalt (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
- 1893, Scientific American: Supplement[1], volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739:
- These minerals are intimately incorporated with all asphaltum, pissasphalt and petroleum. […] The impregnated sand, A to B, has a nearly horizontal lamination, but is contorted in places by the ascent of the pissasphalt.
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French: pissasphalte (fr) |
References edit
- “pissasphalt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.