bitumen

There are two main types of asphalt:

Asphalt is used for road paving, roofing tar, roll-roofing, roofingfelt, shingles, pipe covering, floor tile, waterproofing, and manyother products and processes. Its use will determine what othersubstances are blended with it and what health and safety hazards areassociated with it.

Other names for asphalt include road tar, road binder, mineralpitch, petroleum pitch, petroleum asphalt, and seal-coating material.

Asphalt is often mistakenly confused with "tar", "coal tar", or"pitch" because the appearance is similar and the substances may beused interchangeably in many industrial processes. Tar and pitch arederived from coal products which are chemically and physicallydifferent.

Asphalt is a dark brown or black substance derived from crude oil.It may be a solid, a semi-solid, or a liquid and is a strong adhesive.

Asphalt

Pitch tar bitumen asphalt bitumen natural mineral bitumen asphaltus bitumen 60 / 70 Bitumen 30 / 40, Bitumen 40 / 50, Bitumen 60