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WOOD TIN [4 records]

Record 1 2003-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

Tin is a metal which can combine with other chemicals to form compounds. When tin is combined with chemicals such as chlorine, sulfur, or oxygen, it is called an inorganic tin compound. Inorganic tin compounds are found in small amounts in the earth's crust. They are present in toothpaste, perfumes, soaps, coloring agents, and dyes. Tin can also combine with carbon-containing materials to form organotin compounds. These compounds are used in making plastics, food packages, plastic pipes, pesticides, paints, wood preservatives, and rodent(rats and mice) repellents. There can be tin metal, as well as inorganic and organic tin compounds in the air, water, and soil near places where they are naturally present in the rocks, mined, manufactured, or used.

CONT

Inorganic tin compounds are used as pigments in the ceramic and textile industry ... The low toxicity of tin and inorganic tin compounds is the result largely of its low absorption, low tissue accumulation, and rapid excretion, primarily in the faeces.

CONT

The air emissions from the hot end coating line consist predominately of particulate matter, hydrogen chloride, organic tins and inorganic tins.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

[...] certains composés organostanniques pénètrent dans l'environnement, mais on ne saurait dire si c'est parce qu'ils sont utilisés comme pesticides ou à d'autres fins, ou encore s'ils sont produits par la méthylation naturelle de composés inorganiques de l'étain.

CONT

Les composés inorganiques de l'étain sont employés comme pigments dans les industries de la céramique et du textile.

CONT

L'inhalation d'oxyde d'étain peut provoquer de la «stannose», qui est une pneumoconiose apparemment peu grave (l'étain inorganique reste au niveau du poumon).

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing (Military)
DEF

A belt worn over the shoulder and across the breast often for the suspending of some article or as a part of an official or ceremonial dress.

DEF

... a leather strap or baldrick from which were suspended a number of cylinders, each of which contained sufficient powder for one charge.... twelve was about average... Wood was probably most popular, but copper, tin, pewter, and jacked leather were also used. The bandolier is generally believed to have been developed in the Low Countries during the first half of the 16th century.... References to the bandolier in America do not appear until the 17th century.

Key term(s)
  • cartridge bandolier
  • cartridge bandoleer
  • cartridge bandelier
  • cartridge bandileer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Habillement (Militaire)
DEF

Bande de cuir portée en diagonale sur la poitrine et servant du XIIIe au XIXe s., à soutenir une arme ou un effet d'équipement. (Quelques corps privilégiés de la maison du roi, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe s., la couvrant de galons aux couleurs de leur compagnie, en firent un signe distinctif de leur unité.

DEF

[...] long baudrier passant par-dessus l'épaule, auquel étaient suspendus des étuis de bois contenant chacun une charge de poudre toute mesurée ainsi parfois que la balle.

Spanish

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Record 3 1993-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Containers
DEF

A container of circular cross section, either cylindrical or a truncated cone in shape, made of steel, black plate, fibre, plastic, wood, or tin or terne plate, fitted with a wire handle or bail having a capacity of 12 US gallons or less.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conteneurs
DEF

Récipient d'une capacité de 48 litres ou moins (12 gallons US ou moins) à section transversale circulaire, de forme cylindrique ou conique tronquée, fait d'acier, de fonte, de carton, de plastique, de bois, de fer blanc ou de tôle et muni d'une anse ou de poignées.

Spanish

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Record 4 1979-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
DEF

A cabinetlike device constructed of layers of wood and other materials, as tin, claimed by its inventor, Wilhelm Reich, to restore orgone energy to persons sitting in it, thereby aiding in the cure of impotence, cancer, the common cold, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
CONT

[Wilhelm Reich] poursuit ses travaux sur les «bions», vésicules chargées d'énergie électrique, le protoplasme, la biopathie du cancer et les moyens d'augmenter la résistance du malade à l'aide des accumulateurs d'orgone [...]

Spanish

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