{"id":11567,"date":"2026-06-21T13:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11567"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:27:41","slug":"what-is-bitumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-bitumen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitumen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bitumen Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ongoing conflict in West Asia has hit India\u2019s push to expand road infrastructure as\u00a0 Bitumen was also caught in the crossfire with an import dependency ranging between 30 to 40%.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bitumen<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a dense, highly viscous, <\/span><b>petroleum-based hydrocarbon.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is found in <\/span><b>deposits such as oil sands and pitch lakes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (natural bitumen) or is obtained as a residue of the distillation of crude oil.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitumen is primarily used for paving roads and is <\/span><b>known as black gold<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the pavement industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Properties<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known <\/span><b>for its waterproofing and adhesive properties.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has adhesive properties, and is <\/span><b>soluble in carbon disulphide.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is composed of complex hydrocarbons and contains elements like calcium, iron, sulfur, and oxygen.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quality of material and ease of production depends on the source and type of crude oil from which it is derived.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Applications<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bitumen is versatile and widely used.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is commonly used in the <\/span><b>construction industry, notably for roads and highways.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/business\/amid-west-asia-conflict-bitumen-woes-hit-indias-road-infrastructure-push-10745099\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitumen is a dense petroleum-based hydrocarbon found naturally or from crude oil refining, widely used in road construction as black gold. Read more about Bitumen, Properties, Applications, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":109334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-11567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bitumen","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109236,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11567\/revisions\/109236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}