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09:10 Jun 12, 2019 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Composting | |||||||
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4 +4 | bulking materials |
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3 | aggregates |
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aggregates Explanation: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=Im0oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA264&l... |
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bulking materials Explanation: Or "structural/structuring agents/materials", if you prefer… AKA "aggregation materials". Basically, it's like the fibre in the human diet, you need to add leaves and twigs and grass clippings and things like that to bulk up the compost. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:17:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5467826/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:18:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "or including bulking agents such as wood chips and ..." https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/53611/2/2016_Morale... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2019-06-12 15:10:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- NB: (pax JuanArturo), when I see "aggregate", I immediately think of rock and stone things, for example gravel, which are used in the building industry, rather than fibrous materials added to provide structure to compost. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2019-06-12 15:13:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- NB: When I see "aggregate" (pax Juan Arturo), I think of things composed of rock or stone, for example gravel, which are used in construction, rather than organic materials to provide structure to a compost. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103... |
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