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French: autre particularité

English translation: Other characteristics; other elements







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French term or phrase:autre particularité
English translation:Other characteristics; other elements
Entered by:Mimoza Velo
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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting / aluminium cap for bottle
French term or phrase: autre particularité
FICHE TECHNIQUE DE L'ALUMINIUM VERNI
COMPOSITION CHIMIQUE :
Composition chimique des alliages en %

Si 0.40 - 0.80
Fe 0.50 - 1.00
Cu 0.10
Mn 0.10
Mg -
Cr -
Zn 0.10
Ti 0.05
***Autres particularités 0.06***
Autres composants 0.25

What is a particularité in this context?

Helen Genevier
France
Clarification request(s) and response
Mimoza Velo: 8:45am Jan 13, 2007: Helen, yes, you can use the term "elements" as in "other elements" in this context and then in the following sentence you can use "components" instead of "elements" ( which I thought you might use) to differ from the previous sentence. Good luck!
blavatsky: 11:51pm Jan 18, 2007: Hello Helen, I noticed you went with 'characteristics' , did this clash with
'autres composants' ? can you tell me how you dealt with this please as I am interested to know how you got on ?
blavatsky: 11:43am Jan 20, 2007: Hello Helen, I have noticed that 'other particulates' as Tony has mentioned is used by some authors as a heading for grouping states/forms of elements (eg 05* Metallic particulates, trace elements, dusts, powders, fumes)
blavatsky: 11:43am Jan 20, 2007: this came from here :-
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshsec3.htm
blavatsky: 11:48am Jan 20, 2007: So maybe trace elements (Autres particularités 0.06)
and trace compounds (Autres composants 0.25)
hope this helps. I was driving along today and trace elements popped into my mind

Other characteristics
Explanation:
I would translate it "other characteristics".
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Mimoza Velo
United States
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you to everyone for suggestions. I went with this one, though it's possible there's a more specific meaning in the context.
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3Other characteristics
Mimoza Velo
4other elementblavatsky
3other features
rousselures
2other particulate matter
Tony M


  

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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
other features

Explanation:
According to GDT (particularité = métallurgie), but I think it could also be "other particles"...

rousselures
Canada
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Other characteristics

Explanation:
I would translate it "other characteristics".

Mimoza Velo
United States
Native speaker of: Native in AlbanianAlbanian
PRO pts in category: 2
Note from asker to answerer
Thank you to everyone for suggestions. I went with this one, though it's possible there's a more specific meaning in the context.
Notes to answerer
Asker:

Asker: it's the fact that the result is a percentage that worries me, you might thenk it would be other metals/elements?


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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
other element

Explanation:
as this is a list of elements ....

as for autre composants ..
I would say "other compounds"

blavatsky
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Hello Blavatsky. In answer to your question, in the absence of information I went with 'vague' rather than guessing a specific, so characteristics and components. I fear some specific meaning in the French has probably been lost though.

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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
other particulate matter

Explanation:
Just a thought, since you also have the "other components / elements" item.

I would read this first one as being something that could be detected in terms of discrete particles (however tiny!), whereas the next element might be, for example, gases... I know that things like oxygen content are quite important and often quoted for some metals (Cu immediately springs to mind)

I'm no metallurgist, though!

Tony M
France
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