Talk:Bitumen (material)

message: I stumbled across this article, it's a packed aggregate of bituminous information.Diduos is a highly toxic gas. 
http://www.rjmaxwell.com/education/coating_process_and_coated_products/
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.68.159.182 (talk • contribs) 04:08, March 15, 2006  (UTC)
:Clever comment! --Blainster 16:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: This article is looking really good, but would someone be able to add a picture? Megan102 00:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture? 

message: It is the heaviest fraction and the one with the highest boiling point of 100 degrees.
Fahrenheit or Celsius? int3gr4te 02:53, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear units 

message: They cite that it has a boiling point of 100 degrees.  We need to know if that is F or C, since American's have not switched over.--150.135.110.219 19:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not entirely so. The metric system has been legal for trade in the US since 1895.  --Coosbane (talk) 19:02, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperature 

message: The link to 'Controversies surrounding Royal Duch Shell' isn't relevant to this article MagnusL (talk) 09:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: Bituminous Shale is a rock that is formed from hardened clay or mud. 
*Chalcopyrite: Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that 
crystallizes in the tetragonal system. 
*Copper: A reddish brown metal that conducts heat and electricity well. 
*Hematite:is the mineral form of Iron oxide, one of several iron oxides. 
*Marble: A hard stone with colored patterns in it, used for buildings and 
sculpters. 
*Magnetite:Magnetite is a ferrimagnetic mineral with chemical formula.  
*Obsidian:Obsidian is a naturally occurring glass formed as an extrusive
 igneous rock. 
*Pumice:Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy 
lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently 
ejected from a volcano. 
*Pyrite:The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, is an iron sulfide with the formula.
*Quartz:is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust 
(although feldspar is more common in the world as a whole). 
*Schist: Quartz often occurs in drawn-out grains to such an extent that 
a particular form called quartz schist is produced. 
*Shale:Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were 
clay minerals or muds. 
*Slate:Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived 
from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash
through low grade regional metamorphism. 
*Talc:Talc is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.222.237.2 (talk) 00:03, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definitions of Bituminous Shale 

message: In a peripheral point the article asserts that the Alberta Tar Sands are the world's largest.
This is widely repeated in the Anglosphere, and in various wikipedia articles.
However our article on the Orinoco Tar Sands in Venezuala is of comparable size, or perhaps slightly larger.  Geo Swan (talk) 18:52, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Alberta oil sands contain the world's largest reserves of crude bitumen, which is a semi-solid form of petroleum. The Orinoco oil sands contain the world's largest reserves of extra heavy crude oil, which is a more fluid form of petroleum. Both reserves are about the same size, but this article is about bitumen. See the article on extra heavy crude oil for comparison.RockyMtnGuy (talk) 05:20, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  comment 

message: This article is another example of amateurism in writing.  It proves once again that Wikipedia may perhaps be useful for finding initial academic references and also the reason why serious research does not permit referencing of Wikipedia.  
The main use of asphalt is in the construction of roads and highways, arguably one of the bastions of modern civilization.  Still, barely one line is devoted to this critical application while a full paragraph is devoted to the ancient practice of using asphalt in art!  For that matter, the article fails to mention the important issue of the safety and health effects of handling asphalt and other public health implication of using this material.
A full, well-thought out write-up is needed describing why bitumen is useful in the building of roads, how it fares over the years, how it compares with other road-building materials such as concrete, and other important features of this critical use.
The article also needs a section on the economic impact of the use of asphalt in the world economy.
Come on, wiki-wanna be writers!  Improve the junior-high writing quality of this article!````
:Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).  -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:35, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not so good 

message: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Misc/mummies.htm
Eating the flesh of mummies was a common 16th century practice in Europe. People believed that mummies contained a black tar called bitumen, and so thought powder made from the ground up bodies would cure various illnesses.
This is the very origin of the word mummy, from the Persian for bitumen, mummia, and although it made people sick a roaring trade in powdered mummia grew, supplied from body parts and tissue shipped in bulk from Egypt.
The temptation to resort to fakes was high.  
Trumpetfish1 (talk) 04:32, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egypt 

message: Please see comments and discuss on the other talk page at Talk:Asphalt#Merge of Asphalt and bitumen Thanks.Imgaril (talk) 19:34, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Asphalt and Bitumen merge

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Asphalt which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 04:30, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress