音标:[pi'sæsfælt] ;
(pl. pissasphaltum)天然软沥青
n. Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence
of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate
between petroleum and asphalt.

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Take a closer look at how much worse it can be for people living in cities. 80 million Americans live in the cities with populations of more than 100,000 and it's common for the downtown areas of thos

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In China, saltiness is deemed as the most important flavor. 在中国的烹饪辞典里盐是百味之首 Every day except for rainy ones,Liu Yingwu is busy working in the brine pan. 不下雨的日子里,阿刘每天都要在盐田里忙碌 You ha

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acoustic guitar
allowable frictional surface temperature
articless of confederation
barium rhodanide
blue whales
Bretonian series
bride-ale
Buddleja alternifolia
catechol-o-methyltransferase (comt)
coarse rod
conical centre
connector contact
cryptoclastic rock
current forecast
cytolipin
dalmatias
daniel
data set definition
degenderizing
directionality of creep properties
disguised gambling
document of obligtion
dustlikest
Elagatis bipinnulata
family Rallidae
flarimeter
genderlects
Gombrani I.
grain bin for tipping trailer
great-coat
Gurjão
hatched grafting
hedonic wage theory
impedance marker reset
in blank
inras
internal defect
judge-made
keep within
key to variety
Kikori
Ladleton
lampholes
lancet for venesection
lateral damping
latex traces
lodging houses
lower energy consumption
Maikonkele
make much way
maneer
megaloesophagus
merguis
mesepisternum
mesosa atrostigma
method of fluxions
mingier
molecular weight exclusion limit
monothamnoid
Muslimphobes
navvy bar
nitroxides
ostrich-meat
out of sequence rod
out-pile
overlapping bridge
patet
piston pin locking screw
platform inertial navigation system
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polynemus plebeius
polyvinyl chloride gasket
Potiyivka
primegilt
Queen Mary Coast
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rgo
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rossett
sardanapalus (assyria)
savannah monitor
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West Sacramento
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