Meaning of mélangeur | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A machine for grinding ingredients and mixing them when making chocolate (or rarely nut butter, etc), consisting of roller stones inside a drum.
2. An instrument, essentially a capillary tube with a bulb at one end, for drawing and diluting specimens of blood for examination.

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“The water to be purified is first put⟳ in an inclosed vessel, called the mixing vessel, or mélangeur. This is done by a pipe running close⟳ to the bottom of the mélangeur, and widens there to a kind of rose. The lime-water, previously prepared in a vessel situated higher is also injected into the mélangeur.”

“The blood is mixed in a mélangeur—that is, a capillary tube one extremity of which is blown into a bulb having a capacity of 100 c.mm.[…]The mélangeur is marked at 0.5, 1 c.mm. and 101 c.mm.”

“From the mills the mass passes to the mélangeurs to be mixed with sugar and other ingredients; thence to the refiners, which it leaves in a powder form⟳; then to the hot room, or again to the mélangeur, according to the degree of fineness and smoothness desired, or to the conche there to be pounded away at until it attains that delicacy of feel⟳ to the palate which is so much appreciated at the present⟳ day.”

“White and red blood cell mélangeurs served as volumetric vessels.[…]Macroscopical observation showed that the turbid pink mixture of blood and ammonium oxalate solution drawn into the mélangeur becomes reddish transparent within a few minutes.”

“The dry powder was returned to the mélangeur, where the powder was again turned into dough. Grinding alternated between the roller refiner and the mélangeur until the chocolate reached a desired degree of fineness [20].”

“Pour⟳ the cocoa butter in the mélangeur and then add⟳ 20 percent of the sugar. Turn⟳ on the mélangeur. Add⟳ 20 percent of the milk powder. Alternate additions of sugar with the milk powder (20 percent each time) until they are all in the mélangeur.”

“The nib, coarse or finely ground, is mixed with the sugar in a kind of edgerunner or grinding-mixer, called a melangeur. This consists of two heavy millstones supported on a granite floor.”

“The melangeur Mabel and I had set⟳ up two days ago to grind⟳ the beans and sugar together was still churning away. I peeked into the grinder. Surprisingly, the mixture had turned into a silky smooth liquid. “That's the chocolate liquor,”[…]”

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