Los crystals son escamas brillantes de café extrusionado

English translation: The crystals are shiny extruded coffee flakes

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Spanish term or phrase:Los crystals son escamas brillantes de café extrusionado
English translation:The crystals are shiny extruded coffee flakes
Entered by: tamaraschuster

12:55 Mar 20, 2008
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Tech/Engineering - Science (general) / coffee processing
Spanish term or phrase: Los crystals son escamas brillantes de café extrusionado
Café soluble aglomerado con crystals sin cafeína. Los crystals son escamas brillantes de café extrusionado. Mezcladas con el café soluble aglomerado le dan un particular aspecto nacarado potenciando las cualidades aromáticas del café.
tamaraschuster
Local time: 15:57
The crystals are shiny extruded coffee flakes
Explanation:
escama f a (Zool) scale
b (en la piel) flake; Þjabón

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Note added at 5 mins (2008-03-20 13:00:52 GMT)
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"The crystals are shiny shards of extruded coffee."
shard n casco m, fragmento m



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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-03-20 16:46:07 GMT)
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I prefer not to use the zoological term "scales" here. You choose.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 16:57
Grading comment
The word is absolutely 'extruded'. Thank you for all your help.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2The crystals are sparkling scales of extrusioned coffee
Remy Arce
5Crystals are shiny flakes of squeezed coffee [through the method of extruding]
Ivette Diaz
4The crystals are shiny extruded coffee flakes
neilmac


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
The crystals are sparkling scales of extrusioned coffee


Explanation:
Seems right to me

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Note added at 18 mins (2008-03-20 13:14:38 GMT)
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as pointed very well by neilmac's comment, the correct verb form for the noun extrusion is "extruded"

Remy Arce
United States
Local time: 11:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  neilmac: "extrusion" (noun) refers to the process. The correct verbal form is "to extrude/extruded".
6 mins
  -> Thanks neilmac, you are right!

agree  Ivette Diaz: LOL
1 hr
  -> Gracias Ivette

agree  Egmont
3 hrs
  -> Gracias AVRVM
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Crystals are shiny flakes of squeezed coffee [through the method of extruding]


Explanation:
extrude (v.)
estrujar, exprimir, expulsar, moldear por extrusión, oprimir, prensar, sacar
trude(v. tr.)

extrude;push;squeeze;squeeze out — estrujar;exprimir;oprimir;prensar
extrude, push, squeeze, squeeze out — estrujar, exprimir, expulsar, oprimir, prensar, sacar



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Note added at 1 hr (2008-03-20 14:34:34 GMT)
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Extruded

Ivette Diaz
Local time: 11:57
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  neilmac: Not "squeezed": the correct technical term is "extruded" (the meaning is fuller than just squeezing, it involves extracting and shaping too)
5 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
The crystals are shiny extruded coffee flakes


Explanation:
escama f a (Zool) scale
b (en la piel) flake; Þjabón

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Note added at 5 mins (2008-03-20 13:00:52 GMT)
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"The crystals are shiny shards of extruded coffee."
shard n casco m, fragmento m



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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-03-20 16:46:07 GMT)
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I prefer not to use the zoological term "scales" here. You choose.

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 16:57
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 37
Grading comment
The word is absolutely 'extruded'. Thank you for all your help.
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