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bituminisation

bituminisation is the alternative form of bituminization.

Meaning of bituminization

Noun

bituminization (usually uncountable, plural bituminizations)

  1. (usually) The process of bituminizing.
    • an infiltration of fluid silex into the ligneous tissue, which, having previously undergone bituminization, was in a permeable state1850, 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"

Forms of bituminisation

pluralbituminisations

Questions about bituminisation

What is bituminisation the alternative form of?
Bituminisation is the alternative form of bituminization.

Words near bituminisation in the dictionary

  1. bituminated
  2. bituminates
  3. bituminating
  4. bituminiferous
  5. bituminious
  6. bituminisation
  7. bituminise
  8. bituminised
  9. bituminises
  10. bituminising
  11. bituminite

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