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Record 1 2011-08-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geology
DEF

A ripple mark created by the simultaneous interference of wave oscillation and current action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géologie
DEF

Ride résultant de l'interférence simultanée d'oscillations de vagues et d'effets de courant.

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Federal Government Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
OBS

Immigrant Visitor and Refugee Programs Branch, Department of Citizenship and Immigration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
OBS

Direction générale des programmes pour les immigrants, les visiteurs et les réfugiés, ministère de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration.

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glaciology
  • Soil Science
DEF

A dimensionless ratio of the rate of thaw to the rate of consolidation of the thawing soil, which is considered to be a measure of the relative rates of generation and expulsion of excess pore fluids during thaw.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Glaciologie
  • Science du sol
DEF

Rapport sans dimension du taux de dégel au taux de consolidation du sol en train de dégeler. On considère qu'il représente une mesure des vitesses relatives de production et d'expulsion des fluides interstitiels en excès au cours du dégel.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transport of Oil and Natural Gas
  • Long-Distance Pipelines
CONT

The Mackenzie Gas Project would be the largest construction project to date in the Northwest Territories (NWT). It would be unprecedented in that it involves a buried non-ambient temperature gas pipeline that could thaw frozen ground and freeze unfrozen ground.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport du pétrole et du gaz naturel
  • Canalisations à grande distance
OBS

[...] il faut noter que les tests aqueux à température ambiante ne sont pas les plus adaptés à la validation d'un filtre stérilisant utilisé en conditions non aqueuses et à température non ambiante, comme c'est le cas lorsque l'on veut filtrer des fluides cryogéniques.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Science
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
CONT

Skin slides or flows are surficial debris movements on rocky slopes. They occur in the thin mineral soil veneer and the organic cover on relatively steep slopes (>35°).

CONT

On less steep tundra slopes, ice-rich permafrost is commonly insulated from thaw by stable, vegetated regolith. If sudden slippage of regolith occurs, exposure of the permafrost may lead to seasonal retrogression or failure. Alternatively, deeper penetration of thaw into the permafrost itself may induce rapid slippage in which the surface regolith is passively rafted away by failure of the thawed, ice-rich material below. ... Such rapid failure of the active layer are commonly referred to as skin flows.

OBS

skin flow; shallow translational slide: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Science du sol
  • Mécanique des sols
CONT

Les glissements pelliculaires sont des décrochements superficiels affectant la mince couche de débris minéraux et la couche organique recouvrant les versants rocheux à pente raide (>35°).

OBS

écoulement superficiel : d'après Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Mechanics; Technical terms used in soil mechanics and foundation engineering, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Unesco pédologie.

OBS

glissement pelliculaire : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 6 2000-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
  • Pharmacy
DEF

A material which, due to an affinity for certain substances, extracts one or more such substances from a liquid or gaseous medium with which it contacts and which changes physically or chemically, or both, during the process.

CONT

Calcium chloride is an example of a solid absorbent, while solutions of lithium chloride, lithium bromide, and ethylene glycols are liquid absorbents.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage
  • Pharmacie
DEF

Corps ou substance qui, durant le processus d'absorption, subit un changement d'état et de structure chimique et physique. (Ex. : chlorure de calcium ou de lithium, éthylène glycol, etc.)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Química
  • Acondicionamiento de aire y calefacción
  • Farmacia
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