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GRAMS METHOD [11 records]

Record 1 2012-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
DEF

cokes: The standard grades of hot-dipped tinplates, that carry about 0.56 kg of tin per basis box (i.e. lighter coating than the charcoal grades), that consist of mild-steel coated with tin, and that are used for packaging, canning and general purposes.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

coke; common coke: Terms usually used in the plural ("cokes"; "common cokes").

Key term(s)
  • cokes
  • common cokes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
OBS

Fer blanc étamé à chaud à partir de fers noirs laminés [...] Qualités : Common coke et standard coke.

Key term(s)
  • fer-blanc à étamage mince
  • fer-blanc étamé en couche d'épaisseur ordinaire
  • fer-blanc de qualité «common coke»
  • fer-blanc étamé de qualité «common coke»

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

OBS

This grade of tin-plate carries heavier coatings of tin than coke grades but less than charcoal grades.

OBS

best coke: Usually used in the plural ("best cokes").

Key term(s)
  • best cokes
  • best coke tin-plate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

gram-negative : losing the stain or decolorized by alcohol in Gram's method of staining...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
DEF

Bacteria que con la tinción de Gram pierde el colorante básico cristal violeta al ser tratada con alcohol y toma el color rojo de contraste.

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Record 4 2005-02-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
OBS

gram-positive : Retaining the stain or resisting decolorization by alcohol in Gram's method of staining...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
DEF

Bacterias que al teñirlas con la tinción de Gram retienen el color básico cristal violeta. El color que toman estas bacterias es azul o morado.

CONT

El estafilococo aureus dorado es una bacteria gram positiva que puede producir infecciones en las vias respiratorias [...]

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Record 5 2002-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Analytical Chemistry
CONT

Microwave Digestion : the preferred method for dissolving most samples in acid for analysis by AA [atomic absorption]. The method uses a closed Teflon container into which 5 to 10 mL of acid and approximately 0. 5 grams of sample are subjected to an increasing microwave field for periods up to an hour. The high pressure and temperature inside the container rapidly dissolves most samples and no volatile analytes are lost since the container is sealed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie analytique
CONT

Le système de digestion à micro-ondes Multiwave 3000 est facile à utiliser et idéalement adapté aux techniques d'absorption atomique, ICP et ICP/MS.

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Coating weights : Terne coating is applied by hot-dip method, where sheets are passed through a bath and rollers remove excess coating by a squeezing action. Coating thickness on "short terne" plate is expressed in pounds per double base box.(A surface area of 871. 12 square feet.) Generally 3 coating weights are available. Coating thickness on "long terne" is generally expressed in grams per square metres.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating, or more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
CONT

Caractéristiques mécaniques des tôles plombées [...] Revêtement. Il doit contenir 10 à 50 % d'étain selon la norme française NF A 36-330. [...] La masse du revêtement, masse globale sur les deux faces du produit, peut être déterminée par pesée avant et après dissolution du revêtement dans une solution [...] Trois valeurs moyennes minimales (g/cm²) de la masse du revêtement (double face) sont spécifiées : P75, P100 ou P120 qui peuvent prendre respectivement deux valeurs 60 ou 75, 75 ou 100, 90 ou 120 g/m² selon que le contrôle à lieu sur un ou trois prélèvements. Une masse du revêtement de 100 g/m² double face correspond approximativement à une épaisseur de 5 micromètres sur chaque face.

CONT

L'appréciation d'un fer blanc est caractérisée d'une part par l'épaisseur et la composition de l'acier de base et, d'autre part, par le taux d'étamage. En France, celui-ci représente la quantité d'étain déposée par unité de surface de feuille sur les deux faces, exprimée en grammes par mètre carré (taux courants : 27 g, 33 g, 40 g, 49 g). En Angleterre, le poids [sic : masse] du revêtement d'étain est exprimé en onces par basis box et aux États-Unis en livres par base box (le «basis box» ou «base box» étant une unité de surface, utilisée dans l'industrie du fer blanc, et qui équivaut à 40.465 m² de surface étamée).

OBS

taux d'étamage : ce terme se rapporte en réalité à l'expression de la masse du revêtement, mais peut néanmoins servir de solution de traduction, selon le contexte.

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

CONT

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

OBS

This grade of tin-plate carries heavier coatings of tin than coke grades but less than charcoal grades.

Key term(s)
  • Kanners special coke tin-plate
  • Kanners special coke tinplate

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
Key term(s)
  • fer-blanc étamé en couche d'épaisseur «Kanners special»
  • fer-blanc de qualité «Kanners special»

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metrology and Units of Measure
  • Steel
CONT

Terne coating is applied by hot-dip method, where sheets are passed through a bath and rollers remove excess coating by a squeezing action. Coating thickness on "short terne" plate is expressed in pounds per double base box.(A surface area of 871. 12 square feet.) Generally 3 coating weights are available. Coating thickness on "long terne" is generally expressed in grams per square metres. Some manufacturers continue to use the pound per base box method.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités de mesure et métrologie
  • Acier
OBS

caisse de base : Selon la compagnie Stelco (à Lachine), cet équivalent est utilisé dans l'industrie. Dans les ouvrages français, l'expression «base box» (de même que son synonyme «basis box») est laissée en anglais.

Spanish

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Record 9 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Coating weights : Pure tin coating on a hot-dip tin plate is mechanically distributed over sheet surface by tinning rolls. Due to nature of this tinning operation and elevated temperature of metal it is not possible to control, within close limits, tin coating weight. For these and other reasons, coating is measured and described by "tin pot yield" method. Total weight(in pounds) of tin consumed in manufacture of one base box, is pot yield. Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

Various grades of hot-dipped in tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

Key term(s)
  • pot yield

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier
OBS

rendement de l'étain au creuset : équivalent proposé par la compagnie Stelco à Lachine.

Spanish

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Record 10 1999-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steelmaking
CONT

Terms, charcoal plate and coke plate, which in last century described quality of iron used as a base metal, have now come to be applied to tin plate of certain coating thickness. Amount of coating on coke plates is generally between 1. 24 and 2. 5 pounds per base box-on charcoal plates between 3 pounds and 5 pounds per base box. For roofing applications, heavier charcoal weight coatings have always been preferred. Common cokes, 1. 25 lb/base box. Standard cokes, 1. 50 lb/base box; Best cokes, 1. 70 lb/base box. "Kanners" special cokes, 2. 0 lb/base box.... Weight of coating on an electrolytic plate is a measurement of amount of coating on both sides of sheet, expressed in grams per square meter. Prior to adoption of this system, a "pot yield" method was used. The coating designation numbers are a hold over from this earlier system.

OBS

Various grades of hot-dipped tin plate were produced, the terminology indicating in a general way the weight of tin coating or, more exactly, the amount of tin used to produce the given unit or base box of plate. Coke tin plate has always designated the plate produced with the lowest amount of tin and formerly was called Cokes or Common Cokes. In ascending weight of coating, the various grades were Common Cokes, Standard Cokes, Best Cokes, and Kanners Special. Charcoal tin plate carries still heavier coatings including 1A and 2A.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élaboration de l'acier

Spanish

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Record 11 1998-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Properties of Paper
DEF

The mass of a unit of paper or board determined by the standard method of test. It is expressed in grams per square metre. [Definition standardized by ISO. ]

CONT

In the past, basis weight has always been based upon the weight of 1000 (or 500) sheets of a designated size which varied according to the grade. Grammage simplifies calculation because all grades are based on one sheet measuring one square metre. Grammage is specified as "grams per square metre" (g/m²).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Propriétés des papiers
DEF

Poids du papier en grammes au mètre carré.

OBS

Le grammage facilite le calcul du poids à la rame dans un format déterminé.

Spanish

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