bituminization
English
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editCompare French bituminisation.
Noun
editbituminization (usually uncountable, plural bituminizations)
- The process of bituminizing.
- 1850, Gideon Mantell, A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains: Consisting of Coloured Illustrations Selected from Parkinson's "Organic Remains of a Former World," and Artis's "Antediluvian Phytology":
- an infiltration of fluid silex into the ligneous tissue, which, having previously undergone bituminization, was in a permeable state
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edit- “bituminization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.