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By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
of Bituminate
of Bituminate
Producing bitumen.
The process of bituminizing.
To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
of Bituminize
of Bituminize
Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
The quality of being bivalent.
Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
Bivalvular.
Having two valves.
Having two vaults or arches.