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GRAINS HARDNESS [5 records]

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Record 1 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Brewing and Malting
CONT

Various other devices test the individual hardness of corns. For example, the sclerometer measures and records the resistance to splitting of individual grains to a cutting knife.

Key term(s)
  • sclerometre
  • murbimetre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Brasserie et malterie
DEF

Appareil de malterie, destiné à mesurer la dureté d'un grain de malt.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-09-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
DEF

A sandstone containing more than 95% quartz framework grains(excluding detrital chert grains) and having any amount of clay matrix and any sorting, rounding, texture, or hardness...

OBS

quartzarenite: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

PHR

Eolian, feldspathic quartz arenite.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
DEF

[...] grès composé essentiellement de grains de sable (parfois plus de 90 %) roulés.

OBS

De couleur claire, [ces grains] sont généralement bien cémentés, d'une dureté élevée et d'une bonne résistance.

OBS

quartzarénite : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

PHR

Quartzarénite éolienne, feldspathique.

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

... Because of marked differences in size, shape, degree of cleanliness and hardness of the grains, it is not unusual to find as many as four separate cleaning lines, each equipped with machinery best suited to clean a specific type of wheat. Wheats are grouped according to their characteristics, cleaned, washed if required, tempered or conditioned, and binned separately. They are combined together into a single grist for milling only a short time before the breaking process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Pour en extraire l'amidon, les grains de maïs vont subir un procédé de broyage par voie humide puis une séparation de l'amidon par centrifugation.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Phraseology
CONT

... Because of marked differences in size, shape, degree of cleanliness and hardness of the grains, it is not unusual to find as many as four separate cleaning lines, each equipped with machinery best suited to clean a specific type of wheat. Wheats are grouped according to their characteristics, cleaned, washed if required, tempered or conditioned, and binned separately. They are combined together into a single grist for milling only a short time before the breaking process.

OBS

Grist: A quantity of grain for grinding at one time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Phraséologie
CONT

[...] En raison des différences marquées dans la grosseur, la forme, la dureté et la propreté des grains, il n'est pas rare de trouver dans une meunerie jusqu'à quatre séries de séparateurs différents, chacune d'elles équipée des machines les plus appropriées au nettoyage d'un type particulier de blé. Les blés sont groupés selon leurs caractéristiques, nettoyés, lavés au besoin, conditionnés et mis dans des cellules différentes. On les réunit ensuite en une seule mouture peu de temps avant le début du broyage.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-07-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grain Growing
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

... Because of marked differences in size, shape, degree of cleanliness and hardness of the grains, it is not unusual to find as many as four separate cleaning lines, each equipped with machinery best suited to clean a specific type of wheat. Wheats are grouped according to their characteristics, cleaned, washed if required, tempered or conditioned, and binned separately. They are combined together into a single grist for milling only a short time before the breaking process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Culture des céréales
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

[...] En raison des différences marquées dans la grosseur, la forme, la dureté et la propreté des grains, il n'est pas rare de trouver dans une meunerie jusqu'à quatre séries de séparateurs différents, chacune d'elles équipée des machines les plus appropriées au nettoyage d'un type particulier de blé. Les blés sont groupés selon leurs caractéristiques, nettoyés, lavés au besoin, conditionnés et mis dans des cellules différentes. On les réunit ensuite en une seule mouture peu de temps avant le début du broyage.

Spanish

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