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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Dear SeaVox governance group,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I would like to propose a new L05 term:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="xxcontentpasted0"><span style="color:#1F2328;background:white">Preferred label: sample dividers</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="xcontentpasted1"><span style="color:#1F2328">Definition: A device used to subdivide material samples into two or more smaller portions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Please review the Github ticket for further discussion about this request and provide further comments (</span><a href="https://github.com/nvs-vocabs/L05/issues/25">https://github.com/nvs-vocabs/L05/issues/25</a>)<span style="color:black">
 by the 26<sup>th</sup> <span class="xcontentpasted1">June 2023. Some discussion has already taken place, and the suggestion has been made to include the terms ‘sample splitters’ either as the preferred label, or within the description – so please feedback
 on this if you have any opinion.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Roseanna<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#013B5C;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Roseanna Wright (She/Her) |
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#013B5C;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">MEDIN Standards Marine Data Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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+44 (0)23 8059 9581 | ext: 29581 <br>
roswri@noc.ac.uk<br>
noc.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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