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- road surface of broken stones: a smooth hard road surface made from small pieces of stone, usually mixed with tar or asphalt, in compressed layers

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Asphalt, black, cement-like material varying in consistency at room temperature from solid to semi-solid. It can be poured when heated to the...

Tar, term applied to the oily, dark-coloured bituminous products obtained by the destructive distillation of peat, wood, coal (as coal tar), bones,...

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Coal, solid fuel of plant origin. In remote geological times, and particularly in the Carboniferous period, between 345 and 280 million years ago,...

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