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Building material Bitumen
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Building material Bitumen |
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GREAT HISTORY - SECURE FUTURE |
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Bitumen has been known for millenniums as material!
Already Neanderthal man, approximately 40.000 years ago, used bitumen to fix their flintstones.
Artwork of ancient times
Still pieces oft artwork from different ancient epoches made of bitumen can be admired in museums all over the world.
The image showes artwork from the sumerian epoch approximately 2500 B.C., which is displayed in The British Museum in London.
Ancient egyptian
Ever since to date the egyptians sealed the hulls of the nil-ships with bitumen.
7 wonders of the world
But also to seal one of the 7 wonders of the word, bitumen was used. Bitumen in the form of asphalt mortar was found in the hanging assysrian-babylonian gardens of the Semiramis (approx. 775. B.C.)
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| EXTRACTION AND GRADES |
| distillation of crude oil |
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| BITUMEN OPERATING FIGURES |
| for miscellaneous calculations |
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| STABILITY AGAINST.. |
| acids, lyes, bases, ... |
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| HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT |
| Sealing of drinking water reservoires |
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| IN THE EVENT OF FIRE |
| No dioxin and furan |
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| DISPOSAL - RECYCLING |
Alike domestic or commercial waste
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