mineral tar

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   a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt

   Synonymsmaltha

   Broadermineral

Questions about mineral tar

What does mineral tar mean?

mineral tar means "a thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt".

What is another word for mineral tar?

Close synonyms include maltha. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mineral tar a common word?

mineral tar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.