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HARD PASTE [7 records]

Record 1 2015-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
DEF

A bandage stiffened with a paste of plaster of Paris, which sets and becomes very hard.

CONT

One of the first things you do in making a bodycast is "wetting" the plaster bandages with water. The plaster bandages are dry and need to be dipped in water to activate the plaster.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical
DEF

Bandage imprégné de plâtre.

CONT

1850 : Apparition du premier bandage plâtré réalisé par un médecin hollandais.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Inks and Colour Reproduction (Graphic Arts)
DEF

Traditionally, mixtures of manganese and lead salts combined with varnishes to give a fluid paste consistency.

OBS

[The paste driers] most commonly used in coloured inks, especially process inks, promote a slow uniform drying of the ink, without a hard film on the surface of the ink.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Encres et couleurs (Industrie graphique)
DEF

Composé de séchage, habituellement une combinaison d'agents siccatifs [substances ajoutées à l'encre pour accélérer le séchage].

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Porcelain and Fine Ceramics
DEF

A hard, fine-grained, nonporous, sonorous, and usually translucent and white ceramic ware that has hard paste body [and that] is fired at high temperature...

CONT

Porcelain has numerous uses as a refractory in chemical equipment, sparkplugs, electronic devices, etc. in the form of china, it has long been used for household dishes, pottery, and ornaments. When mixed with glass particles and fused on a metal surface, it is called porcelain enamel.

OBS

The term "porcelain" is more technical than the term "china" which is the common term for "porcelain."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Porcelaines
DEF

Produit céramique à pâte fine, compacte, généralement blanche, translucide en faible épaisseur, vitrifié dans sa masse et revêtu, le plus souvent, d'une couverte brillante et transparente de caractère feldspathique ou plombeux.

Spanish

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Record 4 1996-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Porcelain and Fine Ceramics
CONT

The secret of true, or hard, porcelain ... was not discovered until about 1707 in Saxony .... The terms soft and hard porcelain refer to the soft firing (about 2,200 °F, or 1,200 °C) necessary for the first, and the hard firing (about 2,650 °F, or 1,450 °C) necessary for the second. By coincidence they apply also to the physical properties of the two substances: for example, soft porcelain can be cut with a file, whereas hard porcelain cannot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Porcelaines
CONT

La porcelaine dure est composée de trois constituants essentiels [...] : une argile blanche [...], un fondant [...], et du quartz [...] La pièce obtenue [...] est [...] revêtue d'une couverte feldspathique et cuite avec elle à haute température (1250 à 1450 °C). Cette couverte acquiert ainsi de la dureté et n'est plus rayable par l'acier.

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-08-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chocolate and Confectionery
DEF

Icing sugar, with or without the addition of starch, kneaded to a paste of modelling consistency with gum tragacanth mucilage. The paste can be moulded or modelled and is then air-dried till as hard and brittle as china. Many cake ornaments, vases, decorative motifs, and pillars are made from this material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Confiserie et chocolaterie
DEF

Préparation faite d'un mélange de sucre glace et d'eau, additionné de gélatine, d'amidon, de fécule ou de gomme adragante, pétri à la main ou à la machine et au crochet jusqu'à l'obtention d'une pâte ferme mais susceptible d'être abaissée au rouleau ou moulée facilement. Les pièces moulées ou découpées dans les abaisses de pastillage sont, après séchage à l'air, assemblées avec de la glace royale ou du pastillage ramolli. Le pastillage permet d'effectuer des pièces décoratives proches de la sculpture.

Spanish

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Record 6 1985-12-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Porcelain and Fine Ceramics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Porcelaines

Spanish

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Record 7 1983-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

a porcelain from kaolin, the finest type of pottery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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