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Meaning of pissasphalt | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.

uncountable

Equivalents

Français pissasphalte

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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