asphalts
- present tense form of asphalt (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
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 Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
Mixtures.—Water gas tars and asphalts are sometimes mixed to produce road materials, and likewise native asphalts and residues obtained from petroleum are sometimes mixed to produce asphalt cements for paving mixtures.
From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
The wide asphalts reflected the horses and carriages and trains and pedestrians in forms grotesque, zigzagging, flitting, amusing, like a shadow-play upon a wrinkled, wind-blown curtain.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
Classes of Bituminous Materials.—Bituminous materials may be classified, according to the source from which they are obtained, as coal tars, water gas tars, native or natural asphalts and oil or petroleum asphalts.
From American Rural Highways by Agg, T. R. (Thomas Radford)
