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REDUCING CONDITIONS [1 record]

Record 1 2005-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geochemistry
  • Erosion and Weathering (Geol.)
CONT

The development of reducing conditions will cause both the iron and the manganese to be reduced and to go into solution and move laterally and upward.

OBS

reducing condition: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • reducing conditions

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géochimie
  • Érosion et corrosion (Géologie)
CONT

[...] les sapropèles [...] sont des vases anaérobies résultant de l'accumulation, dans des conditions réductrices, de végétaux microscopiques [...], d'organismes planctoniques [...] et de cadavres d'animaux [...]

OBS

Transformations au voisinage du niveau phréatique. [...] À sa hauteur, les conditions chimiques varient brusquement : réductrices en dessous, généralement oxydantes en dessus.

OBS

condition réductrice : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • conditions réductrices

Spanish

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