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WSU researcher creates cooking-oil based bio-asphalt

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Asphalt binder, the sticky “glue” that holds crushed stone and sand together to form pavement, only accounts for about 5% percent of the final hot mix asphalt (HMA) that is steamrolled into glossy new lanes and boulevards. In Iowa, for example, scientists are making a corn-based bioasphalt from residue left after the production of ethanol.

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