Albertite
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albertite-301-9647348
title:
Albertite
text:
Albertite is a variety of asphalt found in the Albert Formation in Albert County, New Brunswick, and in a deposit at Dingwall, in the north-east of Scotland. It is a type of solid hydrocarbon. Albertite has a black colour, a resinous luster, and a hardness of 2½. It is less soluble in turpentine than the usual type of asphalt. It was from a mixture of albertite and pitch that kerosene was first distilled in 1846 by Abraham Gesner, a New Brunswick geologist who had heard stories of rocks that bur
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description:
Variety of asphalt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertite
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date modified:
2023-11-29T14:17:39Z
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