"Asphalt" the paving material is more properly called asphaltic concrete. It's gravel held together by a binder of a tarry substance extracted from crude oil known as bitumen. Bitumen is also itself...
Asphalt is a petroleum based product. It is mixed with rock and it acts like a binder and when layed and compressed, it makes a smooth surface like a road. soil cement is rock mixed with portland...
Asphalt.
Hot mix asphalt is is heated for application, which thins the material. Remember those steaming metal buckets you used to see on industrial rooftops?
Cold asphalt is liquified with...