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FRESH CHIPS [4 records]

Record 1 2014-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

Sugar beet chips are small pieces of sugar beets. These pieces are knocked of the fresh beets as they are shipped to, delivered, washed and culled at factories that produce sugar from sugar beets.

CONT

Sugar beets are grown, harvested mechanically by digging the plants, cutting off the top of the root with adhering leaves and trucking to sugar mills. These roots are thoroughly washed, cut into thin strips [cossettes or chips], and the sugar removed by diffusion of the chips with hot water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Lamelle de betterave de quelques centimètres¸de long, découpée en forme de chevron.

OBS

Les dimensions et la forme de ces lamelles sont le fruit d’une recherche d’optimisation du processus d’extraction du sucre qu’elles contiennent.

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

green chips : Wood chips made of fresh logging and thinning by-products, including branches and tops.

OBS

green chip: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • green chips

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Énergie de la biomasse
DEF

copeaux verts : Copeaux de bois obtenus à partir de sous-produits d'exploitation forestière et d'éclaircies frais, y compris des branches et des houppiers.

OBS

copeau vert : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • copeaux verts

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Biomass Energy
CONT

Forest wood chips are composed of chopped wood coming directly from the forest. The water content of fresh wood chips amounts to 40 to 60% by weight of fresh matter.

OBS

Terms usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • fresh chips
  • wet chips
  • fresh wood chips
  • wet wood chips

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Tout au long de la chaîne de transformation du bois, nous allons générer des sous-produits qui vont être la base des biocombustibles. Les sous-produits sont [entre autres les] copeaux humides [qui] proviennent des scieries qui effectuent un rabotage final pour donner un meilleur aspect de surface aux planches. Une fois sec, ils peuvent être utilisés pour la fabrication du granulé de bois.

OBS

Termes habituellement utilisés au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • copeaux frais
  • copeaux humides
  • copeaux de bois humides

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Raw Materials (Pulp and Paper)
DEF

fresh chips :Chips that go straight to pulping, rather than to storage prior to pulping.

OBS

fresh chip: usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • fresh chips

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Matières premières (Pâtes et papier)
DEF

copeaux frais : Copeaux utilisés directement pour la cuisson plutôt qu'entreposés.

OBS

copeau frais : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • copeaux frais

Spanish

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