bitumen

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Bitumen is too thick to be pumped through a pipeline, so it has to be mixed with other hydrocarbons to thin it out, producing diluted bitumen.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018

Bitumen, a cover-all term, was prized for its tawny glow, but the popularity of the pigment had much to do with the nineteenth-century taste for the Oriental macabre.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

Bitumen is one of the most energy-intensive oils to produce, and carbon-polluting to burn.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2018

Bitumen capacities at Firebag and MacKay River are 203,000 and 38,000 barrels per day, respectively, and the base plant upgrader facility's capacity is 350,000 barrels a day, Suncor said.

From Reuters • May 29, 2016

Bitumen was used by the Egyptians for embalming from pre-historic times, i.e., prior to 5000 B.C., the term "mummy" arising from the Persian word for bitumen, mumiai.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius