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WIRE IDENTIFICATION [4 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-06-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Appliances and Equipment
  • Installation and Maintenance (Electrical)
OBS

wire identification : term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareillage électrique
  • Installation et maintenance (Électricité)
OBS

identification des fils : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organizations, Administrative Units and Committees
  • Gemmology
  • Mineralogy
OBS

The Richmond Gem & Mineral Society(RGMS), founded in 1957 as the Richmond Gem & Mineral Club, is a nonprofit, family oriented club formed to foster and promote the hobby of rock collecting, and to preserve the cultural art of lapidary and silversmithing. This is done by encouraging... members to partake in rock hounding trips, and basic training courses such as : rock identification, lapidary, silversmithing, lost wax casting, carving, wire wrapping, and faceting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes, unités administratives et comités
  • Gemmologie
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Curling
DEF

A short, slender piece of wire with a point at one end and a head being the identification of the sport of curling or of a curling team or event at the other, used as a badge with a clasp to fasten it to the clothing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Curling
DEF

Courte et mince pièce métallique, à pointe avec fermoir à une extrémité, et tête portant une illustration du curling, le logo d'une équipe ou celui d'un événement dans la discipline, que l'on porte en revers de veston ou de collet lorsqu'on ne les affiche pas à la douzaine sur une casquette ou en nombre sur le devant du veston.

OBS

En Europe francophone, on utilise l'anglicisme «pin» au lieu d'épinglette.

Spanish

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Record 4 1998-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
CONT

Bead tests. In mineral identification, borax is fused to a transparent bead by heating in a blowpipe flame, in a small loop formed by platinum wire. When suitable minerals are melted in this bead, characteristic glassy colors are produced in an oxidizing or reducing flame, and serve to identify elements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

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