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Mercury (market for)
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The activity generating the emissions is market for mercury. The reference product is mercury. Mercury is a metal. It is silvery-white and shiny that is liquid at room temperature and it is a transition metal. It is a direct product of rotary kiln and multiple-hearth furnaces processes. It can be used in the following applications and/or processes: thermometers, mercury vapour diffussion pumps, mercury cells in the chlor-alkali electrolysis, etc. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/149/documentation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Mercury (market for) |
| Sector | Materials and Manufacturing |
| Category | Metals |
| Source | ecoinvent |
| Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
| Region | |
Unit Type | |
| Year | 2011 |
| Year Released | 2024 |
| Emission Factor |
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LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
| Data Versioning |
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Activity ID
metals-type_mercury_market_for_mercury
UUID
18e62732-17c9-4ebe-8911-7f5eb48fcfa7
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