asphalt
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"The playground was just an asphalt strip between two rows of prefab buildings," he said, adding meetings with education authorities proved pointless.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The researchers identified a large thermal gradient, with temperatures reaching approximately 350 degrees Celsius beside the magma intrusion and falling to about 72 degrees Celsius at an ancient seafloor asphalt spill roughly 300 meters higher.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“You’ve got to park in this monster,” he said, motioning to the acres of asphalt around him, “and then go find your seat in that monster.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
The collapse was said to swallow up much of the home's driveway, and left broken asphalt, concrete and construction debris inside the hole.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
As if in slow motion, the camera sailed through the air and hit the black asphalt with a sickening crunch.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
He also is developing what he says should be more-affordable pothole-resistant pavements, using non-petroleum "bio asphalts" derived from waste materials such as corn stalks and switch grass.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2010
They may be petroleum residues or native asphalts fluxed with petroleum oils.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
Both coal tars and water gas tars of semi-solid consistency are also employed for the same class of construction as the liquid asphalts.
From American Rural Highways by T. R. (Thomas Radford) Agg
Until I get at the proper method of pouring and getting rid of the air-bubbles, it will be waste of time to experiment with other asphalts.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
Such is, in fact, the case; and these older asphalts are represented by Grahamite, Albertite, etc., which I have designated as asphaltic coals.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 by Various
"For some reason," a deputy writes, "Brunner believes the asphalted driveway … is now his property."
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2022
The next day, traffic flowed over the newly asphalted road, and life in the capital had returned to near normal.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2022
It is said to be the highest asphalted road in the Pyrenees.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021
Starting with Chinatown, earthen basements were concreted, concrete ones flooded with carbolic acid, walls washed with lye, streets asphalted, cesspools filled and decrepit dwellings demolished.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019
In places liable to be flooded by water, the basin should be cemented or asphalted.
The BR-163 connects the agricultural powerhouse state of Mato Grosso to the Amazon ports Miritituba and Santarém, and in November the army finished asphalting its last unpaved section.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2020
At the Arena Amazonia, where England will play their opening game against Italy on Saturday, workers are still asphalting the ground outside the stadium, fitting doors and fixing power cables in the changing room.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2014
"We are happy and thankful to the foreigners for asphalting the 100km Ghorband-Kabul road," says Haji Ahmad, a truck driver from Shinwari.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2012
They were full of good intentions, but the citizens thought they ought to have something more lasting, so they voted to appropriate an enormous sum for asphalting.
From The Enchanted Typewriter by John Kendrick Bangs
Even during the war, Eritrea developed its transportation infrastructure, asphalting new roads, improving its ports, and repairing war damaged roads and bridges.
From The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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