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STONE MACADAM ROAD [4 records]

Record 1 2002-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Asphalts
  • Bitumen and Bituminous Shales
  • Road Construction Materials
CONT

tarmacadam or coated macadam : A road material consisting of stone coated with tar or a tar-bitumen mixture. It has very little fine aggregate and a high proportion of voids.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Bitumes
  • Exploitation des schistes bitumineux
  • Matériaux de constr. (Voies de circulation)
DEF

Liant hydrocarboné obtenu en mélangeant 4 à 5 p. 100 de goudron aux brais de pétrole destinés aux usages routiers.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction
DEF

A road pavement having a firm foundation of large stone fragments, and a smooth hard-rolled surface of small stones.

OBS

Telford.(after Thomas Telford, civil engineer) being or relating to a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth and distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly in the interstices.

Key term(s)
  • telford
  • telford road

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation

Spanish

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Record 3 1984-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Bodies and Committees
OBS

140 stone cutters 105 AFC-CIO/CLC stone macadam road(BT 89 la circulation routière) route en macadam de pierres stone hammer BT 41 matériel et engins de chantiers marteau casse pierre

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités professionnels

Spanish

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Record 4 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation

Spanish

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