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polpas

English translation: slurry(ies)

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Portuguese term or phrase:polpas
English translation:slurry(ies)
Entered by: Ana Vozone

19:50 Jun 26, 2019
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
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Portuguese term or phrase: polpas
Na avaliação de riscos tenha também em consideração os limites em altura dos locais das operações/deslocações (distâncias em relação a ventiladores e mangas, aos cabos elétricos, estruturas de suporte de tubagens e de correias transportadoras, pórticos, galerias, águas/polpas profundas e outras instalações).

Residue or sludge maybe?
Mark Robertson
Local time: 01:18
slurry(ies)
Explanation:
Sugestão.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=c9ATXf6KO4qGjLsPg7KciAQ&q=s...
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Ana Vozone
Local time: 01:18
Grading comment
Muito obrigado bfs
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +4slurry(ies)
Ana Vozone
4Sludge
Hilton F Santos
4pulps
airmailrpl


  

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slurry(ies)


Explanation:
Sugestão.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=c9ATXf6KO4qGjLsPg7KciAQ&q=s...

Ana Vozone
Local time: 01:18
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 42
Grading comment
Muito obrigado bfs

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Sludge


Explanation:
This was written in Portuguese from Portugal. In Brazil, tubagens = tubulações; deslocações = deslocamentos; polpas ? (polpa de madeira = wood pulp in English. However, if settled at the ***bottom*** of a tailings dam as opposite to a production line, it will sure be sludge, not slurry. Concise Oxford: slurry
/ˈslƏrē/ n. (pl. -ries) a semiliquid mixture, typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal ***suspended*** in water.


Hilton F Santos
Brazil
Local time: 21:18
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 19
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pulps


Explanation:
polpas => pulps

Ore pulp, a mixture of finely ground ore, water, and chemicals used in the froth flotation process for mineral processing.
Pulp - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 21:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 353
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