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oil-wetting agent

Portuguese translation: agente umectante para óleo

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English term or phrase:oil-wetting agent
Portuguese translation:agente umectante para óleo
Entered by: Flavio Steffen

18:46 Dec 9, 2008
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Chemistry; Chem Sci/Eng
English term or phrase: oil-wetting agent
"An oil-wetting agent may be needed to promote oil wetting and barite dispersion."

Trata-se de um trabalho acadêmico sobre aditivos para lamas de perfuração de poços de petróleo.
Edimilson Ferreira
Armenia
Local time: 19:05
agente umectante para óleo
Explanation:


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Note added at 3 mins (2008-12-09 18:50:36 GMT)
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Já faz muito tempo que trabalhei nessa área, mas ainda me lembro de algumas coisas.
A função é permitir que óleos se emulsifiquem em água para facilitar a dispersão.
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Flavio Steffen
Brazil
Local time: 12:05
Grading comment
Obrigado!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3agente umectante para óleo
Flavio Steffen
4Agente humidificante para óleo - (óleo com surfactante)
Marcos Antonio
4agente de molhagem para o petróleo
Maria Meneses
3agente umedecedor de óleo
Clauwolf
3agente de dispersão de óleo
Roberto Cavalcanti


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
agente umectante para óleo


Explanation:


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Note added at 3 mins (2008-12-09 18:50:36 GMT)
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Já faz muito tempo que trabalhei nessa área, mas ainda me lembro de algumas coisas.
A função é permitir que óleos se emulsifiquem em água para facilitar a dispersão.

Flavio Steffen
Brazil
Local time: 12:05
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 88
Grading comment
Obrigado!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
12 mins
  -> Grato, Marlene.
agree  Isabel Maria Almeida
17 hrs
  -> Grato, Isabel Maria.
agree  Paulo Horsky
23 hrs
  -> Grato, Paulo
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
agente umedecedor de óleo


Explanation:
:)

Clauwolf
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 313
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Agente humidificante para óleo - (óleo com surfactante)


Explanation:
Sug.

Encontrei, também, o termo "surfactante" como um significado para "wetting agent" - óleo com surfactante


- UMC - Wetting Agent, Agentes humidificantes. Comercial Produtos ... Suppliers of Chemicals used in oil drilling in India, Suppliers of Mud Fluids In India, ...
www.unitedmudchemicals.com/portuguese.htm - 35k

- The composition does not involve a wetting agent (surfactant) and the method ... ginger oil, black pepper oil, ginger oleo resin, black pepper oleo resin, ...
www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?IA=US1998020918&DISPLAY=DESC - 34k -

- USO DE OLEOS SEM SURFACTANTES NA APLICAÇÃO DE CLORPIRIFOS VIA INSETIGAÇÃO NA CULTURA DE MILHO.
biblioteca.universia.net/html_bura/ficha/params/id/27603.html - 36k

- Mistura de óleos parafínicos de petróleo e surfactantes. ... Mistura de óleos vegetais (algodão, soja) e surfactantes. Exibem. boa seletividade às culturas, ...
w3.ufsm.br/herb/Adjuvantes%20e%20Surfactantes.pdf

Marcos Antonio
Local time: 12:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 176
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
agente de molhagem para o petróleo


Explanation:
não só pode ser um derivado do petróleo (petroquímica) como também se utiliza na exploração de petróleo

Maria Meneses
Local time: 16:05
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 128
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
agente de dispersão de óleo


Explanation:
sem muita certeza

Roberto Cavalcanti
Brazil
Local time: 12:05
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 106
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