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Q: Why does the tar in asphalt have to be a black colour?
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something black and gooey for fixing roads?

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What is asphalt pitch?

Asphalt pitch is a black substance that is used to repair roads. Asphalt pitch is the liquid form of tar.


What is something black and gooey for fixing roads?

asphalt in its early stages?


Why roads are in black colour?

Black is the colour of the tar used to surface the road. Tar and bitumen are two important binders for road making. Tar is a by- product of coke and bitumen come from refining crude petroleum.


What is asphalt pavement?

Asphalt (petroleum tar) mixed with gravel.


What is difference between road tar and asphalt?

Road tar is made from coal. Asphalt is a heavy fraction of petroleum.


What is bituminous material?

Asphalt coal tar Tar sands Brown coal


What are asphalt fossils?

Tar is known as Asphalt fossils. Asphalt preserve only hard parts of organisms such as teeth, bones and the outer shells of spiecies. Countless numbers of these fossils are preserved in tar pits.


What is a lake of asphalt?

Asphalt is a sticky, black and viscous liquid present in most crude petroleum's. There is a Pitch Lake in Trinidad, La Brea Tar Pits in California, and Guanaco Lake in Venezuela


How wide is a tar pit?

A tar pit, or more accurately known as an asphalt pit or asphalt lake, is a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a large area of natural asphalt.[1][2]


Why is asphalt not called tar?

It is in some places. These days asphalt and tar have apparently come to have the same meaning ;- A dark bituminous product from coal or petroleum ,used in surfacing roads.


What is asphalt cement?

It's the same thing as roofing tar.