page_title: Asphalt
hierarchical_section_title: Asphalt
caption_attribution_description: English: Cold refined bitumen
context_page_description: Asphalt, or bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of petroleum. It is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. It is the material which made the La Brea tar pits.
  Its main use is in road construction. Mixed with "aggregate" it makes a good road surface. It has various other names: pitch, tarmac, blacktop, asphalt concrete, asphalt pavement, all mean roughly the same thing.
  Asphalt which is liquid is often called tar. Tar is also used for plant resin. Solid asphalt is often called pitch.
  Although a block of asphalt or pitch can look like a solid, it still flows, but very slowly. There have been a few "pitch experiments" to see how long it takes for a drip to form and drop off a block of apparently solid pitch.
context_section_description: Asphalt, or bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of petroleum. It is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. It is the material which made the La Brea tar pits.
  Its main use is in road construction. Mixed with "aggregate" (sand, gravel, crushed stone, etc.) it makes a good road surface. It has various other names: pitch, tarmac, blacktop, asphalt concrete, asphalt pavement (US), all mean roughly the same thing.
  Asphalt which is liquid is often called tar. Tar is also used for plant resin. Solid asphalt is often called pitch.
  Although a block of asphalt or pitch can look like a solid, it still flows, but very slowly. There have been a few "pitch experiments" to see how long it takes for a drip to form and drop off a block of apparently solid pitch.
caption: refined asphalt/bitumen
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