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GO PLASTIC [7 records]

Record 1 2011-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plumbing Fixtures
  • Anti-pollution Measures
DEF

Piece of plastic installed in WCs which reduces the volume but not the velocity of water when flushing.

CONT

To conserve water without springing leaks, add a couple of narrow, one-quart plastic bottles to displace some of the water that would normally go down with every flush.... Another option is to install a water dam, which partitions the tank into three sections and allows only the water from the middle portion to activate the flush. This saves two to four gallons per flush. Water dams conserve more water than bottles, but they’ve been known to leak.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils sanitaires
  • Mesures antipollution
OBS

Le «water dam» illustré dans la revue «Garbage» se présente sous la forme de deux plaques disposées de chaque côté du tube central d'évacuation d'eau à l'intérieur du réservoir du cabinet d'aisances. Ces deux plaques permettent le vidage de la partie centrale du réservoir seulement. L'eau demeure en permanence dans les sections de droite et de gauche, bloquée par ces plaques.

OBS

barrière : Assemblage de pièces de bois, de métal qui ferme un passage, sert de clôture. [...] obstacle [...] qui s'oppose au passage. [...] Ce qui sépare, fait obstacle.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Binders and Mastics (Constr.)
  • Bodywork and Framework (Motor Vehicles)
CONT

After bumping out the dents and creases, you will usually have to fill in the remaining low spots with plastic body filler... Apply filler to the damaged surface with the spreader in a very thin coat, pressing firmly as you go.

OBS

body filler: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Liants et mastics (Construction)
  • Carrosserie, caisse et châssis (Véhicules automobiles)
CONT

Mastics de finition. Ce sont des produits très épais, très chargés, ayant une consistance pâteuse. Leur application se fait manuellement à l'aide d'un couteau, ou d'une cale à enduire. Le rôle des mastics est de masquer les inégalités et défauts des surfaces à peindre, subsistant après le pistolage de l'apprêt.

OBS

mastic de finition : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2003-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
CONT

The grating must be built into a device called a spectroscope or spectrograph... A transmission grating is a piece of transparent glass or plastic ruled with many finely spaced lines. A grating will break up light into a spectrum just like a prism only it will form many little spectra. Some light will go straight through the grating, this is the zero order image.... The spectrum formed beside the zero order image is the first order image, and the next is the second order image, et cetera.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
CONT

Si nous interposons entre les deux lentilles [du dispositif optique du spectrographe] un élément disperseur qui est un réseau à transmission, nous obtenons sur cet écran, une sorte d'arc en ciel. La lumière est dispersée entre ses différents éléments, ses différentes couleurs, du rouge au violet. C'est la superposition de ces couleurs qui donne la couleur blanche.

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
CONT

A transmission grating is a piece of transparent glass or plastic ruled with many finely spaced lines. A grating will break up light into a spectrum just like a prism only it will form many little spectra. Some light will go straight through the grating, this is the zero order image.

OBS

The spectrum formed beside the zero order image is the first order image, and the next is the second order image, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
CONT

En utilisant une fente large, cela permet d'identifier le champ (environ 10 % du flux incident est alors utilisé). Il est aussi possible d'exploiter l'image d'ordre zéro pour réaliser la calibration spectrale des spectres, ainsi que la calibration radiométrique.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrochemistry
CONT

Roger Leveque believes that one of the Company's opportunities for a flourishing petrochemical future is to become a supplier of primary and derivative petrochemicals that go into the manufacture of plastic consumer goods.

OBS

petrochemical: as a noun, term usually used in the plural (petrochemicals).

Key term(s)
  • primary petrochemicals

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie du pétrole

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-08-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastics Manufacturing
  • Industrial Tools and Equipment
  • Machinery
CONT

In a modern injection molding machine, the pellets are conveyed forward within the barrel by a rotating screw, and melt as they go. The molten plastic is deposited at the forward end of the barrel, displacing the screw backward. When enough material has been plasticized, a hydraulic cylinder pushes the screw forward, forcing the molten plastic ahead of it through a nozzle, sprue, runners, and a narrow gate into a water-cooled mold cavity, where the molten plastic solidifies.

CONT

... if the equipment with the malfunction is a plastic injection molding machine, the possible functions might include injection forward, injection return, screw run, back pressure control, clamp close, clamp pressurization, prefill shift, mold protect, and clamp open.

OBS

injection machine: term standardized by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • injection-moulding machine

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plasturgie
  • Outillage industriel
  • Machines
CONT

Les premières presses à injecter comportaient un piston poussant la matière ramollie dans la buse [...] Dans les presses actuelles, la plastification est assurée par une vis sans fin, analogue à celle d'une extrudeuse. Cette vis [...] fait alternativement fonction de piston d'injection et de vis de plastification.

OBS

machine à injecter : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Key term(s)
  • machine d'injection

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación de plásticos
  • Herramientas y equipo industriales
  • Maquinaria
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Record 7 1986-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrochemistry
CONT

Roger Leveque believes that one of the Company's opportunities for a flourishing petrochemical future is to become a supplier of primary and derivative petrochemicals that go into the manufacture of plastic consumer goods.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie du pétrole
Key term(s)
  • dérivé pétrochimique
  • produit chimique dérivé du pétrole

Spanish

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