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GOLD SHOWING [4 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Accounting
  • National and International Economics
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Entries in a nation's balance of payments account showing financial flows related to international direct investment, investment in government and private securities, international bank transactions, and changes in official gold holdings and foreign exchange reserves.

CONT

The capital account records the values of the non-financial assets that are acquired, or disposed of, by resident institutional units by engaging in transactions, and shows the change in net worth due to saving and capital transfers or internal bookkeeping transactions linked to production (changes in inventories and consumption of fixed capital).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité nationale
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Compte statistique de la balance des paiements récapitulant les flux financiers liés aux investissements étrangers directs, les investissements dans les titres publics et privés, les transactions bancaires internationales et les mouvements dans les stocks publics d'or et les réserves de devises.

CONT

Le solde du compte capital constitue la différence entre les investissements nationaux à l'étranger et les investissements étrangers au pays.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad nacional
  • Economía nacional e internacional
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Cuenta de la balanza de pagos que refleja los movimientos de capitales correspondientes a las inversiones directas en el extranjero, las inversiones en títulos públicos y privados, las operaciones bancarias internacionales y las variaciones de las reservas públicas en oro y divisas.

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Record 2 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Goldsmithing and Silversmithing
  • Jewellery
DEF

Kind of ornamental work on shagreen or tortoise shell covered cases of antique watches, etc., consisting of small gold or silver rivets set in designs, rivets heads showing on the outside of the case-covering.

CONT

(The posé d’or) was often ... enhanced by piqué d’or which is the term given to the decoration consisting of tiny gold nails or minute studs driven into the tortoise shell and set closely together.

OBS

When the gold nails were of a slightly larger diameter and were used to give a more bold emphasis to the design the work was called clouté d’or.

Key term(s)
  • clouté d'or

French

Domaine(s)
  • Orfèvrerie et argenterie
  • Joaillerie et bijouterie
CONT

Le «piqué» (est) l'œuvre des tabletiers qui ont imaginé de façonner quantité de petits objets en écaille et de les orner de motifs en métal, principalement en or.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A rock derived from preexisting rocks by mineralogical, chemical, and structural alterations due to processes operating within the Earth’s crust.

CONT

The gold of India is mainly derived from quartz reefs traversing metamorphic and submetamorphic rocks, and occasionally from gneiss, chloritic schists, and quartzites showing no quartz.

OBS

As a noun "metamorphic" is usually plural.

OBS

See also the more specific terms "para rock" and "ortho rock."

Key term(s)
  • metamorphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les roches métamorphiques sont des roches sédimentaires ou éruptives, transformées ultérieurement par un facteur d'origine interne tel que compression, échauffement, influence magmatique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
DEF

Roca originada mediante un proceso de metamorfismo y que presenta estructuras características, como la esquistosidad o la pizarrosidad.

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Record 4 2005-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A schist containing chlorite.

CONT

The gold of India is mainly derived from quartz reefs traversing metamorphic and submetamorphic rocks, and occasionally from gneiss, chloritic schists, and quartzites showing no quartz.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
CONT

Les prasinites sont des schistes chloriteux contenant de l'épidote et de l'amphibole.

CONT

À Maryland on connaît des schistes chloriteux dérivant de pyroxénites à ilménite. Ces schistes renferment : rutile, hématite, magnétite, ilménite.

CONT

La roche encaissante est un schiste micacé et chloriteux lité, riche en matières organiques, à filonets de graphitoïdes et de carburane.

OBS

Plusieurs auteurs traitent comme des synonymes les termes «schiste chloriteux», «schiste chloritique» et «chloritoschiste». Cependant, il semble que la proportion de chlorite serait plus importante dans un «chloritoschiste» que dans un «schiste chloriteux» ou «chloritique».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Petrografía
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