Masked Name Regulations (SOR/94-261)

2 In these Regulations,

Act

Act means the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999; (Loi)

chemical group

chemical group means an arrangement of bonded atoms that is a portion of a molecule and that possesses a name consisting of a non-composite radical term established in accordance with the chemical nomenclature rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry or the Chemical Abstracts Service; (groupe chimique)

locant

locant means a numeral or Greek or Roman letter used in the name of a substance to indicate the positions of unsaturated bonds or attachments of chemical groups in a molecule; (symbole indicateur de position)

masked name

masked name means a name determined in accordance with section 3 that conceals the explicit chemical or biological name of a substance without misrepresenting the generic identity of the substance; (dénomination maquillée)

multiplicative prefix

multiplicative prefix means a prefix that describes the number of identical chemical groups in a chemical substance; (préfixe multiplicatif)

non-descriptive term

non-descriptive term means a term used in the masked name of a substance, in place of a distinctive element of the explicit chemical or biological name, that does not misrepresent the generic identity of the substance; (terme non descriptif)

parent structure

parent structure means the principal chain or ring system from which an explicit chemical name or part of an explicit chemical name is derived. (structure parentale)