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WURTZILITE [1 record]

Record 1 2012-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Solid Fossil Fuels
  • Petroleum Asphalts
DEF

A black, massive, asphaltic pyrobitumen, ... closely related to uintahite, [that is] insoluble in turpentine [and] derived from metamorphosed petroleum.

OBS

Occurs in veins in Uintah County, UT [Utah].

OBS

[Named after] Henry Wurtz, 1828-1910, American mineral chemist of New York ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Combustibles fossiles solides
  • Bitumes
DEF

Bitume durci.

Spanish

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