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Natural bitumen pitch, from the tar pit above the McKittrick Oil Field, Kern County, California. Pitch is a viscoelastic polymer which can be natural or manufactured, derived from petroleum, coal tar, [1] or plants. Pitch produced from petroleum may be called bitumen or asphalt, while plant-derived pitch, a resin, is known as rosin in its solid ...
Bituminous waterproofing systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings. Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a material made up of organic liquids that are highly sticky, viscous , and waterproof. [ 1 ]
Japan black (also called black japan and bicycle paint [1]) is a lacquer or varnish suitable for many substrates but known especially for its use on iron and steel. It can also be called japan lacquer and Brunswick black. Its name comes from the association between the finish and Japanese products in the West. [2]
A number of products had been launched under the Bostik brand as early as the 1940s and the company took on Bostik as a company name in the 1960s. In 1980, Bostik was taken over by the Connecticut group Emhart Corporation, which nine years later was, itself, bought up by Black & Decker. Black & Decker split apart the mechanical and chemical ...
While the inventor of the commercial Bostik product is unknown, [3] a precursor was created around 1970 as an accidental by-product of an attempt to develop a sealant based on chalk powder, rubber and oil. Blu Tack was originally white, but following fears that children could mistake it for chewing gum, a blue colouring was added.
Bostik Philippines, Inc. Being the first rubber cement brand in the Philippines, eventually used to refer to any brand of rubber contact cement. [194] See also Rugby boy, a collective term for destitute youths known for their use of rubber cement as an inhalant. Saran wrap Cling-film: S. C. Johnson & Son
Bitumen (UK: / ˈ b ɪ tʃ ʊ m ɪ n / BIH-chuum-in, US: / b ɪ ˈ tj uː m ɪ n, b aɪ-/ bih-TEW-min, by-) [1] is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum. Depending on its exact composition it can be a sticky, black liquid or an apparently solid mass that behaves as a liquid over very large time scales.
Ichthammol or ammonium bituminosulfonate (brand name Ichthyol), also known as black ointment, is a medication derived from sulfur-rich oil shale (bituminous schists). It is used (sometimes in combination with zinc oxide ) as a treatment for different skin diseases , including eczema and psoriasis (see below).