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ANIMAL FIBER [9 records]

Record 1 2022-07-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
CONT

Uncarded wool is the fiber you get after shearing an animal... It is usually very matted and knotted. It has to be cleaned of dirt, bugs and plants before you can dye it or weave with it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
DEF

Se dit de fibres textiles qui n'ont pas été démêlées ni peignées au moyen d'une carde, soit d'un instrument en forme de brosse garni de pointes métalliques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Animal Husbandry
CONT

In ruminants, methane is produced mostly by enteric fermentation where microbes decompose and ferment plant materials, such as celluloses, fiber, starches, and sugars, in their digestive tract or rumen. Enteric methane is one by‑product of this digestive process and is expelled by the animal through burping.

OBS

enteric CH4: written enteric CH4

PHR

enteric methane emission

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Élevage des animaux
OBS

CH4 entérique : s'écrit CH4 entérique

PHR

émission de méthane entérique

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Textiles
  • Synthetic Fabrics
CONT

Milk fiber is derived from casein(milk protein). [It] is part of regenerated protein fibers, i. e. artificial fibers produced from non-fibrous proteins of animal or vegetable origin(in this case casein), reconfigured in fibrous form to simulate wool or silk.

Key term(s)
  • milk fibre
  • milk casein fibre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Textiles techniques
  • Textiles artificiels et synthétiques

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Thread Spinning (Textiles)
CONT

The term "fur fiber" may be used to describe the hair or fur fiber or mixtures thereof of any animal or animals other than the sheep, lamb, Angora goat, Cashmere goat, camel, alpaca, llama and vicuna.

CONT

... fur fibers include those [coverings] obtained from animals more often used for their fur-producing value, such as mink, rabbit, beaver and muskrat.

Key term(s)
  • fur fibre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Filature (Textiles)
OBS

Bœuf ou vache : Les poils de ces animaux sont utilisés pour la fabrication de certains tapis et de la thibaude (doublure des tapis). [...] Castor : Poil de castor [...] Son pelage brun roux, très fin et soyeux [...] mélangé à d'autres textiles, il est utilisé en bonneterie et en tissage. [...] Loutre : Poil de loutre : [...] non utilisable en pelleterie, est employé en filature mélangé à d'autres textiles.

Key term(s)
  • fibre de poil d'animaux

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pollutants
  • Air Pollution
DEF

... any thing, living or not living, or any physical agent(e. g., heat, sound) that in its excess makes any part of the environment undesirable; if water, undesirable for drinking, recreation, visual enjoyment, or as a habitat for the aquatic life normal to it; if air, undesirable for breathing, for the condition of buildings and monuments exposed to it, or for animal and plant life; if soil and land, undesirable for raising food and fiber, animals, or for recreation or aesthetic enjoyment.

OBS

In common usage, "pollutant" is a term applied usually to non living, man-made substances or other nuisances, and it refers to their being in excess in a particular location. Often the same substances are produced by natural causes ... but [generally], however, ... they are not by themselves principal threats ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Agents de pollution
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

[...] substance naturelle ou d'origine strictement anthropogénique que l'homme introduit dans un biotope donné dont elle était absente ou encore dont il modifie et augmente la teneur (dans l'eau, l'air ou les sols selon le biotope) lorsqu'elle y était spontanément présente.

OBS

polluant : terme normalisé par l'AFNOR.

OBS

matière polluante; agent polluant; substance polluante : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’environnement» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Agentes contaminantes
  • Contaminación del aire
DEF

Sustancia ajena a un equilibrio ambiental, que se presenta en el medio como un agente perturbador.

OBS

Algunos autores distinguen entre contaminante y polutante. Consideran un contaminante como una sustancia que resulta de la actividad humana sin tener necesariamente efectos biológicos mientras que el polutante tiene origen en la actividad humana y produce efectos nocivos.

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Record 6 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Animals
DEF

An animal used for the production of human and animal food and feed, fiber, skin and hide and, [in some cases, ] farm work...

CONT

The one piece of legislation in Ontario whose sole purpose is to prevent and alleviate cruelty and suffering of animals, denies that very basic right to farmed animals.

OBS

agricultural animal; farm animal: terms extracted from the “Glossaire de l’agriculture” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux de ferme
DEF

Animal utilisé pour l'alimentation humaine et animale, pour la production de fibres, pour sa peau et sa fourrure et même dans certains cas, pour exécuter des travaux sur la ferme.

OBS

animal d'élevage : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
DEF

Animal fibers: Fibers of animal origin such as wool, alpaca, camel hair, and silk.

CONT

Vicuna is the softest coat cloth in the world. The amount of coarse hair to be separated from the soft fibers is negligible and yields the finest animal fiber in the world.

Key term(s)
  • animal fibers
  • animal fibres

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
DEF

Les fibres animales sont de deux espèces : 1) les poils constituant la toison de certains mammifères (mouton, chèvre, chameau, lama, alpaga, vigogne, lapin angora, etc.); 2) les soies qui sont filées des insectes (bombyx du mûrier, soies sauvages, etc.).

Spanish

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Record 8 2011-06-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
OBS

Waring Blendor. Efficient chopping and blending. Motor base can handle various optional specialized containers(Waring). For chopping, churning and pulping of plant materials, animal tissues, plastics, wood and fiber products. Blenders consist of 2 parts-base and container.

OBS

A trademark of Waring Products, Inc.

Key term(s)
  • Waring Blendor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
OBS

Agitateur de 1,89 L Blendor de Waring.

OBS

Blendor de WaringMC : Marque de commerce de Waring Products, Inc.

Spanish

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Record 9 1990-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Concrete
CONT

Fiber-and Fabric-Reinforced Concrete. Historically fibers have been used to reinforce many different types of building materials. Some classic uses are straw in bricks, animal hair in plaster, and asbestos in cement. More recently, however, fiber-reinforced concrete has concentrated on steel, glass, and plastic fibers being placed in mortars and concretes to improve their material characteristics....

OBS

In another case, rather than use separated discrete sized fibers for reinforcement, duPont has experimented with their nonwoven fabric Typar as a reinforcement material for concrete. Placing a sheet of fabric one-third of the distance up from the bottom of a 12 by 12 by 3/4 inch thick concrete tile, impact strengths were measured against control tiles. It was found that 5 foot-pounds were required to break the unreinforced section, while 20 foot-pounds were required for 2 once per square yard Typar-reinforced tiles ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de béton
OBS

Béton armé : Béton dans lequel est incorporée une armature en vue de constituer un matériau capable de résister à des efforts donnés.

Spanish

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