Les grains de riz étaient autrefois décortiqués en les pilant dans des mortiers.
Rice grains used to be husked by pounding it in mortars.
Mlle Pilant, permettez-moi de me présenter.
Miss Pilant, may I introduce myself?
Ils commencèrent par un travail préliminaire : on pulvérisa des échantillons en les pilant à la main dans un mortier en agate, on constata que leur pH était de 6 à 7 dans presque tous les échantillons.
They started with preliminary work: samples were comminuted by grinding them by hand in an agate mortar, their pH was determined at 6 to 7 in nearly all samples.
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