Glossary of
Chemistry &
Environmental
Protection: terms & abbreviations
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French-English,
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F
= 1. field (test e.g. contrast
L = laboratory); 2. F
(-type wastes) = wastes from non-specific sources (USA;
EPA classification of hazardous
and solid wastes) / FAAS
= flameless atomic absorption
spectrometry / Facklam's
starch agar (microbiol.)
/ Faraday
cup: used
in thermal ionization / Farbstoff
=
pigment; stain / sauerer Farbstoff
= acid stain / Färbung
= staining / passage à faune
see
Wildquerung
/ FBC
= fluidised bed combustion (waste
processing)
/ FCC
= fluorocarbon compound / FCCC
see UNFCCC
/ FCKW =
Fluorchlorkohlenwasserstoff
= chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) / FCPA
= potassium 2 formyl 1,4
chlorophenoxy acetate / fcs
= faecal coliforms /
FDS
= fiche de données de sécurité,
see
MSDS
/ Feincharakterisierung
= detailed characterisation (microbiol.)
/ FEM = Fonds pour
l'environnement mondial see
GEF
/ fenarimol
(pest.)
/ fenitrothion
(pest.)
/ fenoprop
(pest.)
/ fenoxycarb (pest.)
/ fenpropimorph
(pest.)
/ fentinacetate
(pest.)
/ fenvalerate
(pest.)
/ FGD =
flue gas desulphurisation (process) (cuts
emissions
from coal-fired power stations)
/ fiche de données
de
sécurité see
MSDS
/ FID
= flame ionisation detector / Fingerhut
= foxglove (bot.);
digitalis (pharm.)
/ fiole
= flask / flacon
=
flask, bottle / flamme froide
= cool flame / fluazinam
(pest.)
/ leichtflüchtig
= highly volatile; schwerflüchtig
= not readily volatile,
nonvolatile / flucynthrinate
(pest.)
/ fluroxypyr
(pest.)
/ Flußgebietsmanagement
= river basin management / Flußsäure
= hydrofluoric acid / flux
(of
e.g. metal into environmental medium)
/ FMLP
=
formyl-methionyl-leucyl-penylalanine /
FNRSH = Fonds national pour
le reclassement social des handicapés (B)
/ FOE
= Friends of the Earth (NGO)
/ Fonds des
Maladies Professionnelles (B)
/ Fonds
de sécurité nucléaire
= nuclear security account (set
up by G7,
Munich July 1992) / fongostatique
= fungistatic / formalin
see formol
/ formamidines
(pest.
group) / formol
(FR)
= formalin; formol; formaldehyde;
HCHO (aqueous solution 37-40%)
/ FPD
= flame photometric
detector / FR
= fractional reabsorption / Fracht
=
(particle) burden, see Durchtritt
/
frange
aérée; frange capillaire
= capillary fringe
(hydrol.)
/ friches
industrielles = brownfield
sites / front
(of solvent)
= leading edge of the solvent, the solvent front / FS = fiche
signalétique
= data sheet (safety, product, materials... cf. MSDS
/ FTA
= trifluoroacetyl / FT ir
= Fourier transform infrared
spectrometry / FTSS
= 1. fiche
technique santé/sécurité
see MSDS
(chiefly Canada);
2. fiche technique sur la
sécurité des substances,
see
MSDS
/ dispositif de traitement de la fumée
=
fume scrubber
(waste management)
/ Fundal,
trade name for
chlordimeform, a type of formamidine
Created
by Alison Gaunt
Last updated: 22 March 2018
