Bitumen

=Maddie's Bitumen...=
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**But did you know...?**

 * ==== It's Latin name was PIXTU-MEN. ====
 * ====The Greek name was άσφαλτος (asphaltos).====
 * ====There are both natural and man-made bitumens.====

baskets, ships and drains and to make a type of glue.

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Natural bitumen in Trinidad
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Natural bitumen is often full of fossils
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When animals came to drink the water they fell in and died. Their bones turned into fossils.

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Uncovering the fossils...
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A fossil mammoth in the Tar Pits Museum
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The word petroleum comes from the Greek word //petra// meaning rock + the Latin word //oleum//, meaning oil.

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Heated oil enters the still at the bottom.
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Bitumen is what's left at the bottom.
|| ====**Gases:** used as fuel in the refinery====

**Bitumen**: for roads and roof surfaces.
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Bitumen is used in roadworks...
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... in paints to weather proof your roof.
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Remove it with white kerosene.
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