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transferts racinaires et foliaires

English translation: root and leaf transfer


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French term or phrase:transferts racinaires et foliaires
English translation:root and leaf transfer
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11:36 Sep 25, 2009
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Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology
French term or phrase: transferts racinaires et foliaires
This is from a nuclear company's EHS manual/ checklist for managers. At issue is cleanup of historic pollution at a given site and measuring the doses to which the population is exposed:

Par exemple, les doses absorbées par les populations sont calculées à partir de régimes alimentaires types qui sont différents selon les tranches d’âge. Ainsi, l’eau des puits consommée, l’eau d’arrosage, les transferts racinaires et foliaires pour les légumes et les fruits, les poissons, les œufs,… sont pris en compte. Les doses inhalées et ingérées ainsi reconstituées de manière enveloppe, sont comparées à des références toxicologiques et le risque est exprimé par rapport à des valeurs repères.

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Ysabel812
root and leaf transfer
Explanation:
Finally, five soils presenting a gradient of pollution were sampled: soil PAH1 with 4 mg .... Leaf emergence of the three species was linear during plant development. ..... Therefore, despite a significant soil-to-root transfer of PAHs, ...
jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/5/1649 -

also leaf-soil transfer

determined, the leaf-soil transfer factors of chemical elements could be estimated for the .... corroborating the low status of pollution of the Atlantic ...
www.springerlink.com/index/L01523K6614127LP.pdf -

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or transfers as indicated by Gabrielle.
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4 +2root and leaf transfer
Drmanu49
3root and leaf crop consumption
Clive Phillips


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
root and leaf transfer


Explanation:
Finally, five soils presenting a gradient of pollution were sampled: soil PAH1 with 4 mg .... Leaf emergence of the three species was linear during plant development. ..... Therefore, despite a significant soil-to-root transfer of PAHs, ...
jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/31/5/1649 -

also leaf-soil transfer

determined, the leaf-soil transfer factors of chemical elements could be estimated for the .... corroborating the low status of pollution of the Atlantic ...
www.springerlink.com/index/L01523K6614127LP.pdf -

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Note added at 2 hrs (2009-09-25 14:27:53 GMT)
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or transfers as indicated by Gabrielle.

Drmanu49
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agree  Jessica Noyes: Yes
53 mins
  -> Thank you Jessica.

agree  Gabrielle Leyden: transfer or transfers (the plural would be better in your case)
1 hr
  -> Thank you Gabrielle.
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
root and leaf crop consumption


Explanation:
Seems to make more sense here, as typical diets are used as the basis for determining the radiation dose absorbed by varying age groups.

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Is it not the case that the transfers (of radiation dose) are from leaf/root to human being by means of consumption?

Clive Phillips
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