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GRADE MIX [3 records]

Record 1 2012-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction Materials
DEF

An asphalt mixture of the gap-graded type designed to have a very high content ... of interconnected voids so as to facilitate the passage of water.

CONT

... an open-graded HMA [hot mix asphalt] mixture is designed to be water permeable. Open-graded mixes use only crushed stone (or gravel) and a small percentage of manufactured sands.

OBS

porous asphalt; draining asphalt: terms and definition proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de constr. (Voies de circulation)
DEF

Enrobé à granularité discontinue formulé pour obtenir un pourcentage [...] important de vides communicants pour permettre le passage de l'eau.

CONT

On distingue les «enrobés ouverts» à fort pourcentage de vides, donc perméables, et les enrobés denses, dont les bétons bitumineux, dans lesquels la teneur en filler peut atteindre de 5 à 10 % et la teneur en bitume de 5 à 6 %.

OBS

enrobé ouvert; enrobé drainant : termes et définition proposés par l'Association mondiale de la route.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction Materials
CONT

Open grade friction course mix. Material is mixed at a plant and laid and rolled as in A [standard mix]. The mix has no fine, only large aggregate. It produces a rough "open" surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de constr. (Voies de circulation)

Spanish

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Record 3 2009-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • White Products (Petroleum)
  • Petrochemistry
CONT

... the volume required to be sold to Independent Marketers of unbranded gasoline shall be comprised of the grades and quality as requested by Independent Marketers, provided that Amalco shall not be required to sell to Independent Marketers unbranded gasoline in a grade mix that is not in approximate proportions to the grade mix being sold by Amalco at the wholesale level from terminals in the Greater Toronto Area for resale at the retail level.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits blancs (Pétrole)
  • Chimie du pétrole
OBS

[...] les carburants ou les catégories de carburants [...] peuvent être mélangés à du biodiesel ou à un autre carburant afin de constituer du biodiesel mélangé ou un autre biocarburant mélangé,

OBS

[...] dans le cas où la taxation est opérée en fonction du volume, il faut prendre en considération : le volume apparent (volume constaté à la température d'observation) en ce qui concerne les essences spéciales (essence B, White spirit et autres), les essences d'aviation (référence 100/130 et 115/145), les carburéacteurs, les essences aromatiques, les carburants en mélange et l'hexane [...]

Spanish

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