On the technical analysis of asphalts

✍ Scribed by Samuel P. Sadtler

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1895
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Volume: 140
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(95)90193-0

✦ Synopsis

Tcchuical Analysis of Asp/la#s. 383 sand at Las Conchas, in enormous springs on the Ojai, and in many other localities ; as asphaltum, in veins of immense extent, probably the largest in the world, at Asphalto. Kern County, Cal.; also at La Patera, Santa Barbara Count', in the same State.

It goes without saying that there has been no scientific examination of any solid bitumen that is worth mentioning. consequently any attempts at specific description like those given above are like a skimmer, consisting chiefly of vacant spaces. Nevertheless, shall we go on multiplying words about the " bitumen of the Dead Sea," " Trinidad pitch.'" " California asphalt," etc., or shall we begin to learn by first discovering how difficult it is to answer the question: " What is Bitumen ?" Let those who think they can answer it first read M. Jaccard's book.