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COKE BLACK [4 records]

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Record 1 2012-10-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

Silicon carbide... has a diamond-like structure and is nearly as hard as the diamond. It is prepared by heating fine [silicon dioxide] and coke with a little salt and sawdust in an electric furnace. The crystals obtained are greenish blue to black. It was one of the most widely used abrasives for grinding and cutting metals.

OBS

Carborundum®: a registered trademark.

OBS

for "carborundum" : When the tradename is used with a small "c", it is no longer considered as a registered trademark.

Key term(s)
  • Carborundum®

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

[...] est produit au four électrique à partir de silice et de carbone. De couleur noire à reflets bleutés, c'est le plus pur et le plus tranchant des abrasifs connus [...] On emploie le carbure de silicium surtout pour le ponçage des apprêts, des vernis et des laques ainsi que le décapage des parquets.

OBS

«carborundum» : Appellation commerciale maintenant passée dans l'usage, synonyme de carbure de silicium.

OBS

Carborundum® : marque déposée

Key term(s)
  • Carborundum

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
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Record 2 2004-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dyes and Pigments (Industries)
DEF

Black pigment made from ground slate, shale, coke, coal, or slaty coal; used in inks, plastics and coatings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Teintures et pigments (Industries)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tinturas y pigmentos (Industrias)
DEF

Pigmento negro producido por trituración o calentamiento de pizarra neutra, esquisto negro, carbón pizarroso, coque o carbón.

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Record 3 2003-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Refining
  • Petroleum Distillation
DEF

A separate, identifiable part of crude oil; the product of a refining or distillation process; a cut.

CONT

Through the highly efficient and sophisticated science of petroleum refining, crude oil is divided literally into hundreds of fractions, valuable products of a spectrum ranging from highly volatile, etheral gases through fuels and oils, and road building material to coke, hard, black and valuable.

CONT

Methane is the predominant fraction in natural gas.

OBS

fraction; cut: terms standardized by ISO.

PHR

Fraction de pétrole brut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Raffinage du pétrole
  • Distillation du pétrole
DEF

Produit obtenu entre deux températures déterminées au cours d'une opération de fractionnement.

OBS

coupe; fraction : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

PHR

Fraction de pétrole brut.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Refinación del petróleo
  • Destilación del petróleo
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Record 4 1992-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
  • Translation (General)
DEF

absolutely inundated.

CONT

As thousands of teens have already learned, to their families’ infinite sorrow, coke is it in the 1980s-the most glamorous, seductive, destructive, dangerous drug on the supersaturated national black market.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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