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SCAVENGER [6 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gasoline Motors
  • Petrochemistry
PHR

Fuel scavenger.

PHR

Gasoline scavenger.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Moteurs à essence
  • Chimie du pétrole
DEF

Produit ajouté aux hydrocarbures pour réduire la quantité d'imbrûlés.

OBS

Les dépôts de plomb dans les carburateurs augmentent ces imbrûlés, qui encrassent le carburateur. On lutte contre cet encrassement en utilisant des «scavengers» (bromures ou chlorures d'éthylène), qui transforment les oxydes de plomb en produits plus volatils.

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Engineering
DEF

In chemistry, any substance added to a system or mixture to consume or inactivate traces of impurities.

CONT

About 1% is used as a solvent (1,2-dichloroethane) and as a lead scavenger in leaded gasoline formulation.

OBS

scavenger: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’environnement” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Génie chimique
DEF

Nom générique des substances naturelles ou artificielles ajoutées volontairement dans un mélange pour rassembler une trace déterminée.

OBS

agent d'épuration; agent de nettoyage : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’environnement» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

When dead plants and animals decay, their remains often form small particles called detritus. A detritivorous animal, or detritus feeder, is an animal that feeds on these particles. Detritivores are common on the seafloor, and include animals such as sea cucumbers and brittlestars.

OBS

"Scavenger" can also refer to organisms that feed on dead animal matter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Catégorie d'êtres vivants qui se nourrissent de détritus d'origine végétale ou animale constituant la matière organique morte.

CONT

On distingue plusieurs catégories de détritivores selon qu'ils consomment de la matière organique en voie de décomposition (saprophages), des excréments (coprophages), des cadavres (nécrophages), ou encore de la matière organique en voie d'humification (géophages) [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Comportamiento animal
DEF

Organismo que se alimenta de materia orgánica muerta.

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Record 4 2009-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Animal Behaviour
CONT

When dead plants and animals decay, their remains often form small particles called detritus. A detritivorous animal, or detritus feeder, is an animal that feeds on these particles. Detritivores are common on the seafloor, and include animals such as sea cucumbers and brittlestars.

OBS

"Scavenger" can also mean "feeding on dead animal matter."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Se dit d'une espèce vivante qui se nourrit de débris animaux et végétaux (excréments, mues, cadavres, etc.).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Comportamiento animal
Key term(s)
  • detritífago
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Record 5 2009-10-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Animal Behaviour
DEF

[An organism] that feeds partly or wholly on the bodies of dead animals.

OBS

"Scavenger" can also refer to organisms that feed on dead plant and animal matter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Organisme se nourrissant de cadavres.

OBS

Selon certains auteurs, le terme «charognard» désigne les organismes nécrophages et saprophages, c'est-à-dire qui se nourrissent de cadavres et de matière organique morte.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Coal Preparation
  • Processing of Mineral Products
DEF

In flotation, a rougher cell in which the tailings, before being rejected as waste, are subjected to a scavenging flotation treatment.

OBS

scavenging: In mineral processing, final stage in flotation of mineralized froth before discard of tailing. The cells are so worked as to remove for retreatment as much low grade rising mineral as possible under the given working conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Préparation des charbons
  • Préparation des produits miniers
DEF

Machine de flottation utilisée en queue de circuit pour épuiser le matériau.

OBS

épuisement : Opération de flottation qui suit le dégrossissage. Elle a pour but d'épuiser le matériau du minéral que l'on flotte sans trop se préoccuper de la qualité du concentré recueilli.

Spanish

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