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Portuguese term or phrase:	fórmica
English translation:	formica
Entered by:	Todd Field

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20:35 Apr 6, 2006

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Science - Agriculture

Portuguese term or phrase: fórmica

Brazilian PT, title of a dissertation:

Efeito da tecnologia de aplicação, sobre a uniformidade de depósitos pontuais em alvos fórmica

Help! "Alvos fórmica" is what is throwing me off... is it possible that there is a grammatical error in the soure text?

Todd Field KudoZ activity Questions: 144 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 588 United States
Local time: 11:58

formica

Explanation:
Todd,

Are they talking about sprayer and pesticides and stuff?
That is probably target (alvo). Evaluating artificial targets (alvos) like applying pesticides on formica to analyze spray losses.

Am I way off here? : - )

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Yes, they are. Take a look at these references:

Scientia Agricola - Air-assisted sprayer for the evaluation of ... - [ Translate this page ]
A disposição dos alvos naturais e artificiais (placas de fórmica) no local do experimento são apresentadas na Figura 1. Na avaliação da deriva utilizou-se ...
www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162... - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Directory of open access journals - [ Translate this page ]
A avaliação da deposição deu-se em folhas das partes superior, média e inferior das plantas e as perdas para o solo em alvos artificiais (placas de fórmica) ...
www.doaj.org/abstract?id=35142&toc=y - 8k

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Sormane Fitzgerald Gomes
United States
Local time: 13:58

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Obg Sormane. Perfect answer for the context of my document.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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formica

Sormane Fitzgerald Gomes

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"Fórmica" is a trademark...

Clauwolf

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11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

formica

Sormane Fitzgerald Gomes
United States
Local time: 13:58
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20

Grading comment

Obg Sormane. Perfect answer for the context of my document.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Yes, that is exactly what they are talking about (sprayer and pesticides, etc.). Sorry I didn't start by giving more context. So you think they are actually taling about formica?

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

"Fórmica" is a trademark...

Explanation:
... the "Melaminic laminate", see there:

Laminado Melamínico ('Fórmica'). Para a limpeza, utilize pano umedecido em sabão neutro. No caso de manchas mais insistentes o pano deve ser umedecido com ...
www.pintodealmeida.com.br/clientes/dicas/revest-la.htm - Em cache

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See also in:

O programa Word da Microsoft acentua a palavra fórmica. Porém, a marca Formica® não possui acento em sua grafia e deve ser escrita sempre com a capitular ...
www.formica.com.br/jornalistas/releases43.htm - Em cache

Clauwolf
Brazil
Local time: 15:58
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 21