pissasphalt

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Borrowed from Latin pissasphaltus, from Ancient Greek πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos), from πίσσα (píssa, pitch) + ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, asphalt).

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pissasphalt (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
    • 1893, Scientific American: Supplement[1], volume XXXVI, Petroleum and Asphalt in California, page 14739:
      These minerals are intimately incorporated with all asphaltum, pissasphalt and petroleum. [] The impregnated sand, A to B, has a nearly horizontal lamination, but is contorted in places by the ascent of the pissasphalt.

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