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(mineralogy) 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.
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Pissasphalt means (mineralogy) A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt..
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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.
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