metales alcalinos y funcionales

English translation: alkali and functional metals

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Spanish term or phrase:metales alcalinos y funcionales
English translation:alkali and functional metals
Entered by: Lisa McCarthy

19:15 Jan 25, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Science (general)
Spanish term or phrase: metales alcalinos y funcionales
Context: Statistical Mechanics Review: "En este campo se han desarrollado también modelos
para el estudio de la coexistencia liquido-vapor (y de la transición metal-aislante
acoplada) de los metales alcalinos [3] y funcionales de la densidad para la energía
electrónica."

The last sentence here is giving me problems. I am not familiar with scientific content and the grammar is giving me problems translating this sentence. Any help would be appreciated.
elsie suess (X)
Local time: 10:38
alkali and functional metals
Explanation:
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Note added at 4 minutos (2010-01-25 19:20:02 GMT)
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Visual Elements: Group 1 - The Alkali Metals
The ***alkali metals** differ from other metals in several ways. They are soft, with low melting and boiling temperatures. They have low densities - Li, ...
www.rsc.org/chemsoc/.../Pages/data/intro_groupi_data.html - Cached - Similar

Friction welding of near net shape preforms in Ti-6Al-4V (June 2007)
Titanium forms intermetallics with almost all common structural and ***functional metals**, the only exceptions being refractory metals (W, Nb, Mo etc) and other ...
www.twi.co.uk/content/spmjrjune07.html - Similar
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3 +8alkali and functional metals
Lisa McCarthy
4 -1alkaline and functional metals
Emilio Schulder


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
alkaline and functional metals


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Emilio Schulder
Chile
Local time: 11:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish

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disagree  Dr. Andrew Frankland: Alkali or alkaline? If the latter then it should be alkaline-earth.
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +8
alkali and functional metals


Explanation:
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Note added at 4 minutos (2010-01-25 19:20:02 GMT)
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Visual Elements: Group 1 - The Alkali Metals
The ***alkali metals** differ from other metals in several ways. They are soft, with low melting and boiling temperatures. They have low densities - Li, ...
www.rsc.org/chemsoc/.../Pages/data/intro_groupi_data.html - Cached - Similar

Friction welding of near net shape preforms in Ti-6Al-4V (June 2007)
Titanium forms intermetallics with almost all common structural and ***functional metals**, the only exceptions being refractory metals (W, Nb, Mo etc) and other ...
www.twi.co.uk/content/spmjrjune07.html - Similar

Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 17:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Marga Shaw
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agree  twiginbeak
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