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Cefic - Chemistry Terms Category: Sciences > Chemistry Terminology Date & country: 24/09/2008, EU Words: 347

HACI
Hellenic Association of Chemical Industries

HASAWA
Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974

hazard
The hazard associated with a chemical is its intrinsic ability to cause an adverse effect. It should be compared to risk, which is the chance that such effects will occur. Whilst a chemical may have hazardous properties, provided it is handled safely under contained conditions, any risk to human health or the environment is extremely low

hazard assessment
Hazard identification and establishment of dose-response relationship for observed adverse effects in the specified (eco)toxicological endpoints

hazard identification
Identification of the adverse effects which a substance has an inherent capacity to cause

HAZOP
Hazard and Operability Study

HCFC
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon

HCN
Hydrogen cyanide

HCS
Hazard Communication Standards (USA)

health hazard
A chemical for which there is statistically significant evidence based on at least one study conducted in accordance with established scientific principles that acute or chronic health effects may occur in exposed employees

HEDSET
Harmonised Electronic Data Set. The European Council Regulation (EEC) 793/93 requires producers and importers of chemical substances to submit to the European Commission data concerning a number of chemicals, if the production or import volume exceeds certain limits. This serves to evaluate and control the risks of existing substances. The data mus...

heterogenous catalysis
In heterogenous catalysis, the reagents combine and transform at the interface between the gas or liquid and the surface of the catalyst. Compare with homogenous catalysis

IAOIA
International Antimony Oxide Industry Association

IARC
International Agency for Research on Cancer (Lyon, France). An agency of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

IATA
International Air Transport Association. Sets standards for the carriage of goods by air

IBC
Intermediate Bulk Container

IBC Code
International Code for the Construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk

IC NIRP
International Committee on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection

ICC
International Chamber of Commerce

ICCS
International Conference on Chemical Safety

ICEM
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers` Unions (Geneva)

ICER
Industry Council for Electronic Equipment Recycling

ICG
Intersessional Correspondence Group

ICHCA
International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association

IChemE
Institution of Chemical Engineers

ICME
International Council on Metals and the Environment

ICRCL
International Committee on the Redevelopment of Contaminated Land

ICSC
International Chemical Safety Cards

IDF
United Nations Industrial Development Fund

JCIA
Japan Chemical Industry Association

JECFA
Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives; joint Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) / World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on Food Additives; JECFA is the international expert committee that has been meeting since 1956 to evaluate the safety of food additives, residues of veterinary drugs in food, naturally occ...

JETOC
Japanese Chemical Industry Ecology and Toxicology Centre

JIC
Joint Industrial Council (chemicals)

JICDM
Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism

JMPR
Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues; joint Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) / World Health Organization (WHO) meeting

JPCA
Japan Petrochemical Industry Association

JRC
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

JSA
Job Safety Analysis

JSIA
Japanese Styrene Industry Association

KECI
Korean Existing Chemicals Inventory (set up under the Toxic Chemicals Control Law)

ketone
An important starting material and intermediate in organic synthesis. Many ketones of industrial significance are used as solvents, perfumes, and flavouring agents or as intermediates in the manufacture of plastics, dyes, and pharmaceuticals

KPI
Key Performance Indicators

KPIA
Korean Petrochemical Industry Association

KT RY
Kemianteollisuus (Finnish chemical industry federation)

latex (pl. latices)
A water emulsion of a synthetic rubber or plastic obtained by polymerisation and used especially in coatings, paints and adhesives. Latices include a binder dispersed in the water and form films by fusion of the plastic particles as the water evaporates. Properties of these films, such as hardness, flexibility, toughness, adhesion, colour retention...

LC50
Median Lethal Concentration. A statistically derived concentration that can be expected to cause death in 50% of animals exposed for a specific time

LCA
Life Cycle Assessment. ALSO: Life Cycle Analysis

LCI
Life Cycle Inventory

LCP
Large Combustion Plant

LCPD
Large Combustion Plant Directive

LD50
Median Lethal Dose. Statistically derived single dose that can be expected to cause death in 50% of dosed animals

LEL
Lower Explosive Limit of a flammable material. See explosive limits. ALSO: LFL (Lower Flammable Limit)

LERC
Local Emergency Response Commission (USA)

LFL
Lower Flammable Limit of a flammable material. See explosive limits. ALSO: LEL (Lower Explosive Limit)

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
See Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG/LP gas)

Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG/LP gas)
Ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, normal butane, butylene, and isobutane produced at refineries or natural gas processing plants, including plants that fractionate new natural gas plant liquids. ALSO: Liquefied Petroleum Gas

MAC
Maximum Acceptable Concentration

MAD
Mutual Acceptance of Data (as devised by OECD)

MAFF
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (UK)

MAI
Multilateral Agreement on Investment

Margin of Exposure (MOE)
Ratio of the No Observable Adverse Effect Level (NOAEL) or an appropriate substitute to the estimated or actual level of exposure to a substance

Margin of Safety (MOS)
The Risk Characterisation Ratio (RCR) of a suitable effect or no-effect level to a human exposure value

MARPOL
1973 convention on Marine Pollution

MARPOL 73/78
International convention for the prevention of pollution from ships initiated 1973, 5 annexes in 1978

MAVESZ
Hungarian Chemical Industry Association

MDF
Medium Density Fibreboard

MEA
1. Monoethanolamine. See ethanolamine. 2. Multilateral Environment(al) Agreement

MEG
See monoethylene glycol (MEG)

MEL
Maximum Exposure Limit

melamine-formaldehyde (MF)
It is a thermoset polycondensate used in molding compounds and food containers (e.g. dishes). It has high surface hardness and scratch resistance. High resistance to creep, heat, moisture, boiling water. High shrinkage, easy to crack in formation

melting point
The temperature at which a solid substance changes to a liquid state

NA
National Associations

NAB
National Associations Board (Cefic)

NACE
Nomenclature of the Activities of the European Communities

NADWC
National Association of Waste Disposal Contractors (UK)

NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement

naphtha
Petroleum naphtha is a petroleum distillate containing principally aliphatic hydrocarbons. It is the primary source from which petrochemicals are derived

NAS
National Academy of Sciences (USA)

natural chlorine compounds
Chlorine is one of the elements most frequently found in nature; it is even more abundant than carbon. Chlorides, i.e. salts containing chlorine, are one of the few raw materials which will not be exhausted within the foreseeable future, even if chlorine consumption were to increase. Naturally-occurring chlorine compounds are present in our blood, ...

NBR
See nitrile-butadiene-rubber (NBR)

NCD
New Chemicals Database (REACH Regulation)

NCI
National Cancer Institute (USA)

NCP
National Contact Point (as for EEC activity on EINECS)

NDSL
Non-Domestic Substances List (set up under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act)

NEL
No-effect Level

NEPA
National Environmental Protection Agency (China)

NERC
National Environmental Research Council (UK)

NESHAP
National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (USA)

Occupational Exposure Limit (OEL)
General term for concentration of air contaminants above which people should not be exposed at work. Most often, an OEL refers to the airborne concentration of a substance averaged over a reference period, such as an 8 hour workshift, or over a 15 minute period during a work shift where peak exposures may occur, which if not exceeded is unlikely to...

occupational illness
Any abnormal condition or disorder – other than one resulting directly from an accident – caused by, or mainly caused by, work-related factors and recognised during the year as part of national schemes or regulations

octane
For a gasoline engine to work efficiently, gasoline must burn smoothly without premature detonation, or knocking. Severe knocking can dissipate power output and even cause damage to the engine. When gasoline engines became more powerful in the 1920s, it was discovered that the most extreme knocking effect was produced by a fuel composed of pure nor...

ODC
Oxygen Depolarised Cathode

ODETTE
Organisation for Data Exchange by TeleTransmission in Europe

OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OECD HPV Chemicals Programme
Launched by the OECD for initial risk assessment of High Production Volume chemicals; has been replaced by the refocused OECD HPV Chemicals Programme. ALSO: HPV Programme

OECD SIDS Programme
See OECD HPV Chemicals Programme (correct name)

OES
Occupational Exposure Standard

oestradiol
Oestradiol is a female sex hormone of importance during the menstrual cycle and pregnancy. It plays a role in the development of typical female body characteristics such as the formation of breasts, soft skin, sexual organs and the pattern of fat distribution. It has high oestrogenic activity as a sex hormone

oestrone
In the body oestradiol is converted to oestrone. It is a female sex hormone, but its activity is less than that of oestradiol

oestrus
Menstrual cycle is the monthly female cycle during which the womb (uterus) is prepared for the implantation of a fertilised egg cell. If fertilisation does not occur, the inside lining of the uterus is shed, resulting in the loss of blood. In animals the period during which the female is receptive to the male animal is termed oestrus