Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
materiales estructurantes
English translation:
bulking materials
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David Russell
Jun 12, 2019 09:10
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Spanish term
materiales estructurantes
Spanish to English
Tech/Engineering
Agriculture
Composting
Taken from a Spanish government document on use of manure for composting, the document refers to the addition of "materiales estructurantes" to the manure to make compost:
Estudio de diferentes mezclas de la fracción sólida de purines con los agentes estructurantes (restos de poda de frutales de hueso)
Estudio de diferentes mezclas de la fracción sólida de purines con los agentes estructurantes (restos de poda de frutales de hueso)
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | bulking materials |
neilmac
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| 3 | aggregates |
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
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bulking materials
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.
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Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:17:40 GMT)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5467826/
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Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:18:36 GMT)
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"or including bulking agents such as wood chips and ..."
https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/53611/2/2016_Morale...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2019-06-12 15:10:29 GMT)
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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.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2019-06-12 15:13:09 GMT)
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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.
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.
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Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:17:40 GMT)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5467826/
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Note added at 7 mins (2019-06-12 09:18:36 GMT)
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"or including bulking agents such as wood chips and ..."
https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/53611/2/2016_Morale...
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Note added at 5 hrs (2019-06-12 15:10:29 GMT)
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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.
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Note added at 6 hrs (2019-06-12 15:13:09 GMT)
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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:
organic bulking agents such as straw and sawdust ... to increase porosity and the C/N ratios of composting materials.
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Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
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