bituminization

Compare French bituminisation.

bituminization (usually uncountable, plural bituminizations)

1. The process of bituminizing.
   • 1850, Gideon Mantell, A Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains: Consisting of Coloured Illustrations Selected from Parkinson's "Organic Remains of a Former World," and Artis's "Antediluvian Phytology":

     an infiltration of fluid silex into the ligneous tissue, which, having previously undergone bituminization, was in a permeable state

• “bituminization”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.