10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PISSASPHALT»
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pissasphalt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
More studies in early petroleum history
Because, apart from the fact that mummy is the true pissasphalt (in my opinion) or
asphalt mixed with pitch, it is always affected by the humour of the dead bodies
which usually distils in sepulchres, by which as you may well imagine its nature ...
Robert James Forbes, 1959
2
Arts and Sciences: Or, Fourth Division of "The English ...
The mummies without the flank incision are either salted and prepared with
impure masses of bitumen, or salted only ; the first kind have their form utterly
destroyed, being covered with a mass of pissasphalt which has penetrated
through the ...
3
The English Cyclopaedia: Division. Geography. 4v. and Suppl
The mummies without the flank incision are either salted and prepared with
impure masses of bitumen, or salted only ; the first kind have their form utterly
destroyed, being covered with a mass of pissasphalt which has penetrated
through the ...
The mummies without the flank incision are either salted and prepared with
impure masses of bitumen, or salted only; the first kind haVe their form utterly
destroyed, being covered with a mass of pissasphalt which has penetrated
through the ...
5
Studies in Early Petroleum History
The liquids are naphtha or petroleum, pissasphalt or mineral pitch, etc., the solids
are Judaean bitumen, ambergris, yellow amber, jet, and mineral coal. Petroleum
and pissasphalt are to be found in water. See Petroleum and Pissasphalt.
6
The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge
The mummies without the flank incision are either salted and prepared with
impure masses of bitumen, or salted only; the first kind have their form utterly
destroyed, being covered with a mass of pissasphalt which has penetrated
through the ...
7
The Book Most Comprehensive in Knowledge on Precious Stones: ...
PISSASPHALT Momya'i (pissasphalt) is like amber and is whitish. It is fragrant
and deserves to be stored with care and respect for helping restore broken bones
. In the Kitab al-A'in (The Book of the Laws) it has been classified among the ...
Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī, 1989
8
Shegyptology: Encounters with Ancient Egypt in ...
"In medical tradition," writes Dannenfeldt, "pissasphalt from the near east had
long been recognized as a curative. . .the appearance of this natural pissasphalt
was similar to that of the bituminous materials used by the ancient Egyptians in
the ...
9
Dictionnary of the English Language with Numerous ...
The Spaniards call pissasphalt cera de minera, mineral wax, perhaps from its
consistency ; but the Arabians term it mumia; whence, it may be, embalmed
bodies came to be called mummies, from their being preserved with this
pissasphalt: ...
10
Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society
In the Kitab al-Ayin, two kinds of pissasphalt have been described. These are the
hot and cold kinds. It is indeed surprising to be told that it is cold, since
pissasphalt is a kind of pitch and it would be strange to ascribe to pitch the
properties of ...
Pakistan Historical Society, 2001
