le musée municipal

1 [van een, de stad] municipal

2 [van de steden] urbain

♦voorbeelden:

1   het stedelijk museum • le musée municipal

2   de stedelijke bevolking • la population urbaine

loan [ləʊn]

1. noun

( = money) (lent) prêt m ; (borrowed) emprunt m

• can I ask you for a loan? pouvez-vous m'accorder un prêt ?

• I asked Barbara for the loan of her car j'ai demandé à Barbara de me prêter sa voiture

► on loan

• this picture is on loan from the city museum ce tableau est prêté par le musée municipal

• I have a car on loan from the company la société me prête une voiture

• my assistant is on loan to another department at the moment mon assistant est détaché dans un autre service en ce moment

• the book is out on loan (in library) le livre est sorti

2. transitive verb

prêter ( sth to sb qch à qn)

3. compounds

► loan shark (inf) noun usurier m, - ière f

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noun gen ( when borrowing) emprunt m; ( when lending) prêt m

transitive verb prêter (also loan out) prêter [object, money]

le musée municipal

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology

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His family, of modest means, moved in 1864 to Meaux, where he attended the municipal college; he returned to Paris before completing his education and apprenticed himself to a pharmacist. In 1872 he began work as a laboratory assistant at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, while continuing studies in chemistry. He qualified as a pharmacist at the Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie in 1879, and by this time he had decided that his main interest was inorganic chemistry. His early investigations concerned the oxides of iron and related metals; his work attracted the favourable attention of Sainte-Claire Deville and was the subject of his doctoral thesis. In 1882 Moissan married Leonie Lugan, whose father provided generous financial support, enabling him to pursue his researches with greater freedom and security. He became, successively, Professor of Toxicology at the Ecole in 1886 and of Inorganic Chemistry in 1899. In 1884 Moissan began both his investigation of the compounds of fluorine and his attempts to isolate the highly reactive element itself. Previous attempts by chemists had ended in failure and sometimes injury. Moissan's health, too, was affected, but in June 1886 he succeeded in isolating fluorine by electrolysing potassium fluoride in hydrogen fluoride at −50°C (−58°F) in platinum apparatus. He was then able to prepare further compounds of fluorine, some of technological importance, such as carbon tetrafluoride. At the same time, Moissan turned his attention to the making of artificial diamonds. To achieve this, he devised his celebrated electric-arc furnace; this was first demonstrated in December 1892 and consisted of two lime blocks placed one above the other, with a cavity for a crucible and two grooves for carbon electrodes, and could attain a temperature of 3,500°C (6,332°F). It seemed at first that he had succeeded in making diamonds, but this attempt is now regarded as a failure. Nevertheless, with the aid of his furnace he was able to produce and study many substances of technological importance, including refractory oxides, borides and carbides, and such metals as manganese, chromium, uranium, tungsten, vanadium, molybdenum, titanium and zirconium; many of these materials had useful applications in the chemical and metallurgical industries (e.g. calcium carbide became the main source of acetylene).

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