The roof of your home is probably made waterproof by an oil product, bitumen. 你家的屋顶可能是用一种叫沥青的石油产品做成防水的。
The irradiation stability of bitumen and bituminized producthas been investigated. 本文研究了沥青及沥青固化产品的辐照稳定性。
bitumen
[ noun ] any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons <noun.substance>
Bitumen \Bi*tu"men\, n. [L. bitumen: cf. F. bitume. Cf. {B['e]ton}.] 1. Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc. See {Asphalt}.
2. By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
Venezuela has the world's largest known deposits of bitumen and extra-heavy crude in the Orinoco Belt, an area that lies north of the Orinoco River.
Industry executives say crude prices would have to rise sharply to warrant development of its costly far north reserves and its big western Canadian deposits of tar sands, a tarlike mixture of sand, clay, water and bitumen.