austarieren

English translation: to tare

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German term or phrase:	austarieren
English translation:	to tare
Entered by:	katieker

23:15 Dec 15, 2003

German to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) / biochemistry

German term or phrase: austarieren

..Suspension aus 50ml Tube in ein Zentrifugenröhrchen umfüllen, und auf der Waage mit zweitem Zentrifugenröhrchen austarieren."

katieker KudoZ activity Questions: 310 (none open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 36 United Kingdom
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to tare

Explanation:
Fachwörterbuch Chemie und chemische Technik
Verlag A. Hatier

und auch

Englisch Wörterbuch Deutsch Englisch Wörterbuch
... choosing; aussuchendes=choosing; austarieren=tare; austasten=to key
off=blank=blanking=bond strength=key off=to blank=to gate=gate; ...
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Selected response from:

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 20:16

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Summary of answers provided

5 +2

to tare

Edith Kelly

to compensate for the tara / offsetting the tara factor

swisstell

to balance (out)

Tobi

Answers

12 mins confidence:

to compensate for the tara / offsetting the tara factor

Explanation:
I am not sure about a proper translation but I am very sure about the meaning:
Tara weight of course is the weight of the packing, in this case the centrifugal tube mentioned in your example. In order to ascertain the net weight of the actual product (here the suspension), one needs to put an empty tube on the other side of the scale, to compensate for the weight of the filled tube on this side. The result is the offsetting of the tara factor: you get the net weight.

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 20

7 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

to tare

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 20:16
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 91

Grading comment

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8 hrs confidence:

to balance (out)

Explanation:
this is south-german or austrian and means to balance something out.
like e.g. for a pair of scales. you put the goods to weigh on one side and the calibrated weights on the other side to ascertain the weight.

Tobi
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of:

German

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