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French term or phrase:
a raide de
English translation:
typo for à l'aide de = with or using... an alkaline solution
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Drmanu49
Apr 8, 2008 13:15
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French term
a raide de
French to English
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This comes from a set of French patent claims:
"degraissage du substrat a raide d'une solution alcaline ..."
Is "à raide de" a variant of "à l'aide de"? I can't find it in any references, but that would make sense in context.
Thanks in advance for your help.
"degraissage du substrat a raide d'une solution alcaline ..."
Is "à raide de" a variant of "à l'aide de"? I can't find it in any references, but that would make sense in context.
Thanks in advance for your help.
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typo for à l'aide de = with or using... an alkaline solution
Acidic solutions have pH values of less than 7, alkaline solutions more than 7. Pure water, being neutral, has a pH of exactly 7. ...
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Comment: "Thanks for the confirmation of what I originally suspected. It seemed an unlikely typo, though, given the configuration of the standard keyboard. I also found plenty of Google pages using "a raide de."
I will assume that this must have been a mistranscription. "
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