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FREEZE TECHNIQUE [4 records]

Record 1 2015-04-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
DEF

A technique whereby a concentrated liquid freeze point depressant is sprayed onto solid salt or sand at the time it is placed onto the pavement surface.

Key term(s)
  • prewetting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes
DEF

Technique qui consiste à vaporiser une substance liquide concentrée abaissant le point de congélation sur du sel solide ou du sable lors de l'épandage sur une surface pavée.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

You can store a freeze-dried meal for years and years, and then, when your’re finally ready to eat it, you can completely revitalize it with a little hot water. Even after all those years, the taste and texture will be pretty much the same.

OBS

freeze drying : A preservation technique in which a food... is frozen and placed in a vacuum; the ice is vaporized and trapped, leaving a dried product...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
OBS

Produits lyophilisés vendus en sachet.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-03-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundation Engineering
  • Earthmoving
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
DEF

A technique used to stabilise fine-grained soils or coarser soils where normal methods of groundwater control might cause stability problems, to allow of excavation below the water table. Freezing imparts strength and impermeability to the ground and can be carried out either by circulating cooled brine through tubes(freeze probes) in the ground or by applying a refrigerant(e. g. liquid nitrogen) directly into the probe and allowing it to evaporate at the primary point where cooling is required.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technique des fondations
  • Terrassement
  • Mécanique des sols
CONT

En tant que technique de consolidation provisoire des terrains aquifères, la congélation est connue depuis longtemps [...] Congeler un sol, c'est transformer en glace l'eau contenue dans ce sol [...] Le tube congélateur [...] permet de transférer au terrain les frigories nécessaires à la transformation de l'eau en glace [...] L'apport du froid au terrain peut se faire de deux manières différentes : circulation d'un liquide refroidi (liquide frigoporteur) en circuit fermé. C'est le cas de la congélation à la saumure; circulation d'un liquide frigorigène dont la détente (ébullition) produit du froid directement au niveau du congélateur. C'est la méthode de congélation à l'azote liquide.

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
CONT

This freezing technique is used most commonly in a family context called an "estate freeze" to facilitate transfer of future growth of a company from father to a child avoiding capital gain tax on the father's death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
OBS

Le gel des avoirs contrôlés par une personne-clé à l'intérieur d'une société.

Spanish

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