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HOT ACIDIFICATION [2 records]

Record 1 2001-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Winemaking
CONT

Acidification. After an exceptionally hot summer, grapes may have too little acid, resulting in a flat and tasteless wine. This may be corrected... by adding to the must either a small amount of tartaric acid... or the less mature-and therefore more acid-grapes from a late flowering of the vine; or by blending with high-acid wines.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

[Le récoltant] ajoute : Au moût [...] de l'acide citrique, ou, de préférence, de l'acide tartrique pour rendre plus fermes les vins débiles (acidification). Au vin, après le premier soutirage : [...] De l'acide citrique ou de l'acide tartrique, ou les deux à la fois, pour les raffermir (acidification) [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 1981-04-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Wastewater Treatment
CONT

Soluble-oil emulsions are usually broken down by flocculation with aluminium or iron sulphates and precipitation with lime or by hot acidification.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Traitement des eaux usées
CONT

La rupture de l'émulsion d'huiles solubles est généralement obtenue par floculation aux sulfates d'alumine ou de fer et précipitation à la chaux ou encore par acidification à chaud.

Spanish

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