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# chemical — English to French

How English *chemical* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [chemical in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/chemical/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: chemical (62 440), chemicals (43 524). By style: everyday 48 · literary 5 · parliamentary 2 788 · legal and administrative 19 489 · UN documents 83 634.

## chimique

Used about 89 210 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 038 · UN documents ≈ 70 566). Forms: chimique, chimiques.

- Edmundo is stealing the **chemical**.
  Edmond vole le produit **chimique**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11753988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11753988) [\#12493856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12493856))

- The **chemical** match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel represented progress.
  L'allumette **chimique** n'existait pas encore; le briquet Fumade représentait à cette époque le progrès.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20814)

- The same applies to **chemicals** and pesticides.
  Il en va de même des substances **chimiques** et des pesticides.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 790445)

- safe use of **chemicals**,
  usage sûr des substances **chimiques**,
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4488448)

- Change **chemical** name From:
  Remplacer le nom **chimique**:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19606475)

## étiquetage

Used about 2 614 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 614).

- AND LABELLING OF **CHEMICALS**
  DE CLASSIFICATION ET D &apos; **ÉTIQUETAGE**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16087669)

## produits

Used about 901 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 29 · UN documents ≈ 871).

- The Pole explained that four of the chief cafés in the town had agreed to have it on sale, and that two papers, the Northcoast Pharos and the Havre Semaphore, would advertise it, in return for certain **chemical** preparations to be supplied to the editors.
  Le Polonais expliqua comment quatre des principaux cafés de la ville consentaient à la lancer dans la circulation, et comment le Phare de la Côte et le Sémaphore havrais lui feraient de la réclame en échange de quelques **produits** pharmaceutiques mis à la disposition des rédacteurs.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 907)

- So the issue does not only involve banning **chemical** agents, it also deals with the handling of **chemical** agents.
  Il ne s'agit donc pas uniquement d'interdire ces **produits**, il est également question de l'utilisation de ces produits.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1806642)

- The re-export of **chemicals** that were imported earlier into the territory of the Republic of Belarus and that appear on schedules 1 and 2 of the list of **chemicals** is prohibited.
  Il est interdit de réexporter des **produits** inscrits sur les listes 1 et 2 précédemment introduits sur le territoire bélarussien.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12497557)

## substances

Used about 435 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 29 · legal and administrative ≈ 406).

- In adopting the regulation we had assumed that we would have to reckon on the registration of approximately 200 000 **chemical** substances.
  En adoptant le règlement, nous avions anticipé l'enregistrement de quelque 200 000 **substances**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1174133)

- When working with radiolabelled test **chemicals**, it is possible to analyse parent and metabolites.
  En cas d’utilisation de **substances** d’essai radiomarquées, il est possible d’analyser le produit parent et les métabolites.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3275017)

- For **chemicals** with high adsorption coefficients, such as synthetic pyrethroids, silanised glass may be required.
  Du verre silanisé peut s’avérer nécessaire pour des **substances** de coefficient d’adsorption élevé comme les pyréthroïdes synthétiques.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3274893)

## industrie

Used about 203 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 203).

- During the period considered employment in the **chemical** industry increased by 8 % while in the aluminium industry it remained stable.
  Au cours de la période considérée, l’emploi a augmenté de 8 % dans l’**industrie** de la chimie tout en restant stable dans l’industrie de l’aluminium.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2117709)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Then came the **chemical** action of nature; in the depths of the seas the vegetable accumulations first became peat; then, acted upon by generated gases and the heat of fermentation, they underwent a process of complete mineralization.
  Alors intervint l'action de la chimie naturelle, au fond des mers, les masses végétales se firent tourbe d'abord; puis, grâce à l'influence des gaz, et sous le feu de la fermentation, elles subirent une minéralisation complète.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1765)

- I knew quite well that according to the best received theories the mineral covering of the globe is never at absolute rest; the changes brought about by the **chemical** decomposition of its component parts, the agitation caused by great liquid torrents, and the magnetic currents, are continually tending to disturb it--even when living beings upon its surface may fancy that all is quiet below.
  Je savais bien que, d'après les théories les plus acceptées, l'écorce minérale du globe, n'est jamais dans un état de repos absolu; les modifications amenées par la décomposition des matières internes, l'agitation provenant des grands courants liquides, l'action du magnétisme, tendent à l'ébranler incessamment, alors même que les êtres disséminés à sa surface ne soupçonnent pas son agitation.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3860)

- I deplore the fact that the shameful and unrestrained use of neurotoxins has been hypocritically supported in agreement with the large industrial **chemical** giants.
  Je déplore que l'utilisation honteuse et effrénée de neurotoxiques ait été hypocritement cautionnée en accord avec les grands groupes industriels de la chimie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1448325)

## Grammar

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