Términos

Form of sodium chloride, with small amounts of magnesium chloride, magnesium sulfate, and calcium sulfate, that is obtained from the evaporation of salt water; often comprising larger crystals than table salt.

General term referring to members of two families and at least seven living species of the Testudines order, distinguished from other turtles because they live in the sea rather than in fresh or brackish water or on land.

Artificially produced radioactive element in Group VIb of the periodic table, atomic number 106; first created in 1974. Named after the American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg. It can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature.

Script based on the stamping seal style. Generally refers to the ancient Chinese written scripts dating before the Han clerical script, including the great seal script and the small seal script. Generally speaking, written scripts before the Qin dynasty are called the great seal script. After the state of Qin united China in 211 BCE, a team of officials led by Li Si, the Prime Minister at that time, standardized the written scripts, and the new script is called the small seal script.

A substance designed to seal a surface or container against the passage of a gas or liquid, or to fill up cracks.

The work or industry of capturing and rendering seals.

Undersea elevations that do not break the surface of the ocean. Seamounts rise more than 1,000 meters from the seafloor and are of limited extent across the summit; often but not always formed by extinct volcanoes.

Ports on a seacoast.

Tropical forests of coniferous or broad-leaved trees that lose their leaves during the dry season; trees do not grow close together and there are few climbing plants. Seasonal rainforests are found in areas having short dry periods in an otherwise very wet tropical region. They are located between the tropical rain forests and the tropical savannas.

Long, slender pointed awls used to regulate the stuffing in collars and saddles or for leveling thread.

Long, typically curved, awls with a blunted end used primarily in saddlery to insert stuffing, or "flock" into cart-saddle panels or the peaks of riding saddles.

Describe obras producidas por africanos de mismo nombre que viven en Kenia y Uganda.

Se refiere al período Paleolítico en Egipto desde aproximadamente 12.000 a 10.000 a.C. El período se caracteriza por herramientas de sílex del tipo Levallois que se transformó posteriormente en una industria microlítica de sílex.

Una grasa dura procedente de animales, especialmente ovejas, cabras y ganado, que contiene ácidos grasos, ácido oleico, ácido palmítico, ácido esteárico, ácido linoleico y ácido mirístico. Sebo se utiliza en el vestir de cuero y en la fabricación de jabones, lubricantes, velas y alimentos.

Hornos para el secado y curado de cortes de madera.

Edificio agrícola equipado con hornos para el secado del lúpulo; son típicamente de planta circular, con tejado cónico y se encuentran por lo común en Kent, Inglaterra.

Liberar total o casi totalmente de líquidos. Para la eliminación o disminución de agua, aunque queden otros líquidos, use “deshidratación”.

Instrumento pequeño, generalmente de mano, que seca el pelo por medio de la emisión de chorro de aire templado.