Synonyms for bitumen
baɪˈtu mən, -ˈtyu-, bɪ-, ˈbɪtʃ ʊ-bi·tu·men

Princeton's WordNet

1. bitumennoun

   any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons

Matched Categories

1. • Hydrocarbon

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1. List of paraphrases for "bitumen":

   asphalt, bituminous, tar, pitch, pavement

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How to use bitumen in a sentence?

1. Directa Plus:

   100 per cent recycled, which can reduce the extraction of new materials from quarries and first-use bitumen.

2. Cameron Todd:

   We've got a technology that allows you to more efficiently get bitumen out of oil sands, we've got a process that works and ... it means you don't have a problem with sludge that's left over and needs to go to a tailings pond.

3. Flavio Volpe:

   So I think it’s important we get some technical advice from the experts at (the U.S. Trade Representative) on how exactly we’re going to do that… A lot of plastics are petroleum-based. So what’s the methodology there — are we tracing back to bitumen, are we tracing back to sweet crude? “When you say you’re going back to the base raw materials that’s what you’re talking about. So when did the dinosaurs die? And where did they die? And can we claim ownership of that?