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Descriptor English: Hydraulic Fracking
Descriptor Spanish: Fracking Hidráulico
Descriptor fracturación hidráulica
Scope note: Una tecnología de perforación en el que el GAS NATURAL se extrae de grandes depósitos de formaciones rocosas impermeables conocidas como esquistos, en lo profundo de la corteza terrestre. Esta técnica de perforación consiste en inyectar grandes volúmenes de fluido a alta presión de fracturación (una mezcla de agua, arena y productos químicos) varios miles de pies bajo tierra, creando así grietas o fisuras en la formación de esquisto, y liberando el gas atrapado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fraturamento Hidráulico
Descriptor French: Fracturation hydraulique
Entry term(s): Fraccing
Fracking
Fracking, Hydraulic
Fracturing, Hydraulic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydrofracking
Hydrofracturing
Hydrofracturings
Tree number(s): J01.576.655.875.750.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000067071
Scope note: A drilling technology in which NATURAL GAS is extracted from large deposits of impermeable rock formations known as shale, deep within the earth’s crust. This drilling technique involves injecting large volumes of high-pressure fracturing fluid (a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals) several thousand feet underground, thereby creating cracks or fissures in the shale formation, and releasing trapped gas.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2016
History Note: 2016
DeCS ID: 56180
Unique ID: D000067071
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Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/01
Revision Date: 2014/10/15
Hydraulic Fracking - Preferred
Concept UI M000597774
Scope note A drilling technology in which NATURAL GAS is extracted from large deposits of impermeable rock formations known as shale, deep within the earth’s crust. This drilling technique involves injecting large volumes of high-pressure fracturing fluid (a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals) several thousand feet underground, thereby creating cracks or fissures in the shale formation, and releasing trapped gas.
Preferred term Hydraulic Fracking
Entry term(s) Fraccing
Fracking
Fracking, Hydraulic
Fracturing, Hydraulic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydrofracking
Hydrofracturing
Hydrofracturings



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