Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
unprimed pump
Spanish translation:
bomba no cebada
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Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
Sep 3, 2011 19:28
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English term
unprimed pump
English to Spanish
Science
Environment & Ecology
cambio climático
in that regard angiosperms are particularly well adapted to getting large quantities of water vapour into the atmosphere on account of the high ratio of leaf vascular tissue to the leaf area, thereby overcoming bottlenecks and reducing cavitation whereby air enters the vascular system and like, an unprimed pump, breaks up the water column. The combined effect of the evaporation of water from surfaces exposed to the Sun and wind and the drawing up of water –
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bomba no cebada
A "primed pump" is a "bomba cebada", therefore an "unprimed pump" is a "bomba no cebada":
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZIU4-UjfzYcC&pg=PA1101&lpg=...
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZIU4-UjfzYcC&pg=PA1101&lpg=...
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