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VOLATILE SALT [4 records]

Record 1 2003-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Mineralogy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Mineralogía
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Record 2 1998-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Chemistry)
  • Chemistry
OBS

A light source containing a noble gas at a low pressure and some volatile metal or metal salt(such as an iodide or chloride). A discharge produced in the noble gas by high-frequency fields generates electrons which by collisions excite the analyte atoms.

OBS

For atomic absorption and atomic fluorescence spectroscopy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement (Chimie)
  • Chimie
OBS

Une source lumineuse qui contient un gaz rare à faible pression et un métal ou un sel métallique volatil (tel qu'un chlorure ou un iodure). Une décharge dans le gaz rare par des champs à haute fréquence provoque la formation d'électrons qui excitent, par collision, les atomes de l'élément à analyser.

OBS

En spectroscopie d'absorption atomique et de fluorescence atomique.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pottery
DEF

A very thin glaze which is hardly more than a faint gloss, sometimes to be found on biscuit porcelain and Wedgwood's jasper ware. It may have been due to the presence in the kiln of volatile substances acting in the same way as salt imparts a glaze to stoneware.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poteries

Spanish

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Record 4 1997-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clay Working Methods (Ceramics)
DEF

A very thin glaze which is hardly more than a faint gloss, sometimes to be found on biscuit porcelain and Wedgwood's jasper ware. It may have been due to the presence in the kiln of volatile substances acting in the same way as salt imparts a glaze to stoneware.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques de la céramique

Spanish

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