Assessment of Mercury Releases from the Russian Federation

Assessment of Mercury Releases from the Russian Federation

Symbols, Units and Acronyms

ACAP Arctic Council Action Plan to Eliminate Pollution of the Arctic

AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

ESP Electrostatic precipitator

GOST State standards

Hg Chemical symbol for mercury

INTAS International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

JSC Joint Stock Company

MAC Maximum allowed concentration

MAD Maximum allowed dose

MCW Mercury containing waste

MSW Municipal solid waste

OSPAR The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

PVC Poly vinyl chloride

RAS Russian Academy of Sciences

RF Russian Federation

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

VCM Vinyl chloride monomer

WWS Waste water sludge

Units

μg 10^-6 g

ppm parts per million

Punctuation In accordance with English punctuation, dot (.) is used as decimal symbol and comma (,) as digit grouping symbol

t 1000 kg = metric ton

Tonne 1000 kg = metric ton = t