From: "Radhakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(Helga do Rosario asks: But what does 'libertable' mean Paulo? I could not
find it in any of my
regular dictionaries.)
Exactly my question, Helga! Erudite Paulo and waffling Veronica do make
strange bedfellows, but they have found common ground in making Goa
'liberatable' to the extent that Paulo concurs with Veronica's waffling 110
per cent!
Maybe they are planning to revive organic farming in Goa by reclaiming the
Dabolim airfield from the navy and making it irrigatable. Such a stupendous
task calls for a grandiose word to describe their valiant fight and they
seem to have decided to call it 'liberatable' instead of the mundane
'irrigatable'.
Am I right, Paulo?
-- RKN
P.S: Wonder whether Cecil had a hand in coining this new word.
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jc's response:
Those who are involved in Science and Research should have come across the
word 'liberatable'.
While it will be seen (as per Paulo's suggestion )to be mainly used in the
classification of Cyanide, it will also be seen in Suphite/Sulphite studies.
It means "capable of being made free" : Liberate + able
good wishes
jc
Journal of Environmental Quality 30:1927-1932 (2001)
© 2001 American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and
Soil Science Society of America
http://jeq.scijournals.org/cgi/content/full/30/6/1927
Additionally, easily LIBERATABLE cyanides were determined according to the
German Standard Methods (1988).
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International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/tc/tclist/TechnicalCommitteeStandardsListPage.TechnicalCommitteeStandardsList?COMMID=3666&INCLUDESC=YES
ISO 6703-2:1984 Water quality -- Determination of cyanide -- Part 2:
Determination of easily LIBERATABLE cyanide
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