asphalt
IPA: ˈæsfɔɫt
noun
- A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits.
- Ellipsis of asphalt concrete, a hard ground covering used for roads and walkways. [A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. (Often clipped elliptically as asphalt.)]
verb
- (transitive) To pave with asphalt.
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Examples of "asphalt" in Sentences
- The waterfall is at the end of the asphalt road.
- The track surface has of asphalt and of concrete.
- The road is just a strip of asphalt on the ground.
- Asphalt had the added incentive of being fireproof.
- The foundation is stone and the roof is asphalt shingle.
- Also the use of artificial asphalt was a novelty at the time.
- In the emulsion, the emulsifier employed is an alkoxylated asphalt.
- The output of the calculation is the thickness of the asphalt layer.
- After the solidification of the asphalt, the drum is tightly sealed.
- A lot bigger chunk of the earth is covered in asphalt than in mining works.
- Asphalt aggregate roads crack when subjected to freezing and thawing cycles.
- Craig – That the black Civic is buried to the axles in asphalt? cmholm Says:
- Highway asphalt is streaked in red, and there's a steady exodus of mud-laden trucks heading away from Kolontar.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Innoventor perfected the process of converting the animal waste into a bio-oil used in asphalt binder.
- AS I write this, beneath my window, with a great clattering of hoofs on the asphalt, is passing a long column of mountain batteries, all carried on the backs of our big Government mules.
- First of all, those little air pockets mean less material overall, and with the cost of oil as unstable as the resource itself, petroleum-based asphalt is no longer the cheapest form of paving.
- “Whew!” gasped a worker with Pace Construction Co., the St. Louis County road contractor that joined forces with Innoventor, the Earth City-based engineering and design firm that perfected the process of converting the animal waste into a bio-oil used in asphalt binder.
- But it should also be said that they share the diversity of character of petroleums, and the term asphalt represents a group of substances of which the physical characters and chemical composition differ greatly in virtue of their derivation, and also differ from changes which they are constantly undergoing.
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