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Bitumen is a generic term applied to natural inflammable substances of variable colour, hardness, and volatility, composed principally of a mixture of hydrocarbons substantially free from oxygenated bodies (24). Bitumen is manufactured from the distillation of crude oil during petroleum refining:
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