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size

English translation: Sizing or Coating

20:41 Jul 11, 2011
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Manufacturing
English term or phrase: size
I am translating a report about an investigation into allegedly faulty packaging coatings that were used in the production of EOEs (easy open end) tins.
The report says:
,,Identified good and bad systems using semi-coated plates of claimed batches:
1) Best:
[name of tinned fish product]
[name of coating] applied on 13 March 2011
Steel produced on 29 Nov. 2010

2) Bad:

[another name of tinned Fish product]
[name of coating] applied on 14 March 2011
Steel produced on 24 Dec. 2010
Difference noted – Best EOE’s had coatings applied on 3 different days, while the bad EOE’s had the size and 1st layer of organosol coated on the same day.’’

I can’t really make out the meaning of the word ‘’size’’ in this context.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Grzegorz Mysiński
Poland
Local time: 23:50
Selected answer:Sizing or Coating
Explanation:
Sorry thought it was to SP. Should be coating...sizing is mainly used for cloth.
Selected response from:

José J. Martínez
United States
Local time: 14:50
Grading comment
Thank you José.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +7Sizing or Coating
José J. Martínez
4 -1Sintering
eski
3 -2size
Clauwolf


Discussion entries: 2





  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
Sizing or Coating


Explanation:
Sorry thought it was to SP. Should be coating...sizing is mainly used for cloth.

José J. Martínez
United States
Local time: 14:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you José.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Yes, it really means a kind of 'primer' or base coat to prepare the substrate (in this case, metal) to receive the subsequent coatings; usually, it helps these 'stick', and this could well be at the origin of the problems...
2 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  Jenni Lukac (X)
19 mins
  -> Thank you
agree  Jack Doughty
1 hr
  -> Thank you
agree  Suzan Hamer
2 hrs
  -> Thank you
agree  B D Finch
16 hrs
  -> thanx
agree  Phong Le
1 day 2 hrs
  -> thanx
agree  Thuy-PTT (X)
1 day 10 hrs
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Sintering


Explanation:
Sintering:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintering

Produced During Sinteriing. Edward R. Generazio* and Don J. Roth' ... research is to control the amount, size, uniformity, and distribution of porosity in ...
Sintering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Traducir esta página ]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintering - En cachéDuring the firing process and as it continues; grain size becomes smaller ... If the size of the particle is small (or if the radius of curvature is large) ...
Has visitado esta página 2 veces. Fecha de última visita: 11/07/11.
Evaporative packing of capillary columns - US Patent 5997746 Abstract - [ Traducir esta página ]
www.patentstorm.us/patents/5997746.html - En caché... through the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and sinteriing. ... 2630-2633 "Polystyrene latex particles as size calibration for the ...
Evaporative packing a capillary columns - US Patent 6190559 Abstract - [ Traducir esta página ]
www.patentstorm.us/patents/6190559.html - En caché... through the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and ...
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Evaporative packing of capillary columns - Patent # 5997746 ... - [ Traducir esta página ]
www.patentgenius.com/patent/5997746.html - En caché2630-2633 "Polystyrene latex particles as size calibration for the atomic force ... the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and sinteriing. ...
US Patent 5997746 - Evaporative packing of capillary columns - [ Traducir esta página ]
www.wikipatents.com/.../evaporative-packing-of-capillary-..... - En caché7 Dec 1999 – ... the same end of the column at which the slurry entered, and sinteriing. ... and different particle size distributions to be packed in ...

Sorry for the language pair mixup, Tony.
Saludos,
eski :))

eski
Mexico
Local time: 15:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: Sorry, Eski, but I don't see any connection between 'sizing' and 'sintering' (which AFAIK is a quite different process altogether)
6 mins
  -> Thanks for your comment Tony; You're absolutly sure. Saludos from Acapulco! eski :;))
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -2
size


Explanation:
:) Something i is missing. It should be ["had the size cut to lenght and 1st layer of organosol coated..."]

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Note added at 16 hrs (2011-07-12 13:10:47 GMT)
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Beer cans - I understand that, come on!

Clauwolf
Local time: 18:50
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: Not, it's a special technical meaning here; there's nothing missing. Read it as "...had the size and [the] 1st layer ... coated..."
19 mins
  -> nothing special, first you cut the material, and then comes the coating phase
disagree  B D Finch: Not "size" in the sense of large or small!// No, not that sort of "size"! I suggest you look the word up in a good monolingual dictionary.
16 hrs
  -> cut to size
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