bituminization

English

Etymology

Compare French bituminisation.

Noun

bituminization (usually uncountable, plural bituminizations)

  1. The process of bituminizing.
    • 1850, 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":
      an infiltration of fluid silex into the ligneous tissue, which, having previously undergone bituminization, was in a permeable state

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References
  • bituminization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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