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pisasphalt

pisasphalt is the alternative form of pissasphalt.

Meaning of pissasphalt

Noun

pissasphalt (uncountable)

  1. A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
    • 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.1893, Scientific American: Supplement, volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739

Questions about pisasphalt

What is pisasphalt the alternative form of?
Pisasphalt is the alternative form of pissasphalt.

Words near pisasphalt in the dictionary

  1. Pisapia
  2. Pisar
  3. Pisarovina
  4. Pisarski
  5. Pisarskis
  6. pisasphalt
  7. pisasphaltum
  8. pisasteroside
  9. Pisatao
  10. Pisatau
  11. pisatin

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