Bitumen, Packaging Type : Drum

The terms asphalt and bitumen* are often used interchangeably to mean both natural and manufactured forms of the substance. In American English, asphalt (or asphalt cement) is the carefully refined residue from the distillation process of selected crude oils. Outside the United States, the product is often called bitumen. Geological terminology often prefers the term bitumen. Common usage often refers to various forms of asphaltbitumen as "tar", such as at the La Brea Tar Pits. Another term, mostly archaic, refers to asphaltbitumen as "pitch".