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LOOSE FILL [11 records]

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Record 1 2014-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
CONT

If you are using loose fill insulation and plan to pour it into place, make sure you purchase the "pouring" type. The "blowing" type must be blown in by a special machine, unless stated differently by the manufacturer.

Key term(s)
  • pouring type loose fill insulation
  • pouring insulation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
OBS

Si vous utilisez de l'isolant en vrac et que vous prévoyez l'épandre, assurez-vous de vous procurer un isolant qui se prête à ce genre de mise en œuvre. Certains types d'isolants en vrac sont conçus pour être injectés au moyen d'une machine spéciale.

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design
  • Thermal Insulation
CONT

I am 90% complete with an 8'x8' outdoor sauna. It's really a garden shed with an old wood burner in it. It's cedar-lined with very little insulation. I put about 3" of loose vermiculite in the ceiling and stapled an aluminum vapor barrier in the walls ... I did put in double panes to help keep heat in.

CONT

The tandoor liner is surrounded by six cubic feet of loose vermiculite insulation. This was bought from a builders' merchant as two bags, each three cubic feet.

OBS

loose vermiculite: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

Key term(s)
  • loose fill vermiculite

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale
  • Isolation thermique
OBS

La vermiculite est un minéral (mica) qui a été expansé (comme le maïs soufflé) pour devenir un isolant granulaire léger. Il peut être versé dans des endroits très restreints (blocs de béton).

OBS

Le seul isolant en vrac, à notre connaissance, utilisable dans ces cas est du mica expansé, appelé aussi vermiculite.

OBS

vermiculite en vrac : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standards
OBS

Standard number: 51-GP-45MP, 1980

French

Domaine(s)
  • Normes de l'Office des normes générales du Canada (ONGC)
OBS

Numéro de norme : 51-GP-45MP, 1980

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standards
OBS

Standard number: CAN/CGSB-51.60-M90

French

Domaine(s)
  • Normes de l'Office des normes générales du Canada (ONGC)
OBS

Standard number: CAN/CGSB-51.60-M90

Spanish

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Record 5 1997-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standards
OBS

Standard number: 51-GP-44MP, 1980

French

Domaine(s)
  • Normes de l'Office des normes générales du Canada (ONGC)
OBS

Numéro de norme : 51-GP-44MP, 1980

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Standards
OBS

Standard number: 51-GP-27M, 1979

French

Domaine(s)
  • Normes de l'Office des normes générales du Canada (ONGC)
OBS

Numéro de norme : 51-GP-27M, 1979

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging
DEF

Loose strips of paperboard, polystyrene foam, etc., used in package to fill spaces not occupied by commodities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Emballages
DEF

Bandes de papier ou de carton, pièces en polystyrène, etc., utilisées pour combler les vides d'un emballage.

Spanish

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Record 8 1992-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Packaging Techniques
  • Packaging
OBS

complete range of industrial and military packaging products, manufacturers of air bubble cushioning (Air-Cap, Mail Lite), --.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'emballage
  • Emballages
OBS

Bulpak et Aircap sont des matériaux d'emballage et de calage aux performances exceptionnelles (EMBAL 73 303-47) (...) Le calage souple ne cherche pas à empêcher tout déplacement interne (POCEM 67 3-90)

Spanish

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Record 9 1992-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Thermal Insulation
  • Construction Materials
DEF

Medium made of a continuous gas phase with the solid incoherent inclusions the shape of which does not have a predominant dimension.

OBS

Term and definition standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation thermique
  • Matériaux de construction
DEF

Milieu poreux constitué d'une phase gazeuse continue avec des inclusions solides irrégulières sans dimension prédominante.

OBS

Terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Methods

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés de construction

Spanish

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Record 11 1982-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Insulation and Acoustical Design

French

Domaine(s)
  • Isolation et acoustique architecturale

Spanish

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