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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pissasphaltus, from Ancient Greek πισσάσφαλτος (pissásphaltos), from πίσσα (píssa, “pitch”) + ἄσφαλτος (ásphaltos, “asphalt”).
Noun
pissasphalt (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) A soft, black, tarry bitumen, intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
1893, Scientific American: Supplement, 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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