bitumen

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Bitumen mining, which started in 1967, contributes around a third of Canada's 4.9 million barrels a day of oil production.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023

Bitumen is too thick to be pumped through a pipeline, so it has to be mixed with other hydrocarbons to thin it out, producing diluted bitumen.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018

Bitumen, a cover-all term, was prized for its tawny glow, but the popularity of the pigment had much to do with the nineteenth-century taste for the Oriental macabre.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Bitumen is one of the most energy-intensive oils to produce, and carbon-polluting to burn.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2018

Bitumen, bi-tū′men, or bit′yu-men, n. a name applied to various inflammable mineral substances, as naphtha, petroleum, asphaltum.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various