Also bitumenization. [f. next + -ATION.] The process or state of conversion into bitumen.
1804. in Phil. Trans., XCIV. 407. The process of bituminization (if I may be allowed to employ such a term).
1884. W. H. Rideing, in Harper’s Mag., March, 522/1. Hard jet is of two distinct formations, being both wood and petroleum, now in a state of high bitumenization.
