Civil Engineering - Building Materials - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Building Materials - Section 7 (Q.No. 18)
18.
Asphalt is obtained from
petroleum distillation
bitumen distillation
plastic distillation
none of these.
Answer: Option
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Deepak said:   7 years ago
Almost all of the asphalt used today for paving comes from petroleum crude oil. Liquid asphalt is the heaviest part of the crude"what's left after all the volatile, light fractions are distilled off for products such as gasoline. In Europe and Canada it is commonly called bitumen.

Munesh kumar meena said:   7 years ago
Bitumen is destructive distillation of petroleum.

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