Million, milliard

Milliarde, /. milliard (1,000 million, billion). milUonstel, a. millionth (part of), micro-. Miloriblau, n. milori blue (Prussian blue). 

American readers should note, en passant, that the original (European) definition of a trillion is a million million millions, that the definition of a billion is a million millions, and that what they refer to as a billion is correctly referred to as a milliard (how the desire to be a billionaire can distort language ). 

Evaluations have shown that Azerbaijan s hydropower potential amounts to 16 billion kWt.h including 5 milliard kWt.h of small hydropower potential. Utilization of this potential will allow to save annually 500 thousand tons of conditional fuel that will result in reducing the amount of C02 emissions by 1.5 million tons/year. 

The meaning of the French word billion should always be checked from the context. It may, and usually does, conform to American usage. If, however, the term milliard —i.e., one thousand million, has been used to denote billion (U. S. usage), the French billion becomes the equivalent of the U. S. trillion. ... 

In addition to the specification of content ranges in parts by mass w, parts by volume a. or parts by amount of substance x. in trace analysis the term ppm (parts per million I ppm = 1 10 = I0" %) is generally used for parts by mass w. Still lower concentrations are expressed in ppb (pails per billion) errors can arise because the intended reference quantity lO (1 ppb= 10 %) is called billion" mainly in the United States, but milliard" in Europe. This quantity is sometimes represented as ppM (parts per milliard). 

In Italy, currently 14 million tons of packaging materials are produced (plastics represent 17% of it which is about 2.4 millions tons) with a turnover of about 14,000 milliards of Itl, where there are 30,000 employed people and 2,000 producting units. At the present, there are two different tendencies in the production of plastics packaging in Italy decrease of the consumption of raw materials per unit of product, and increase of use of recycled plastics whenever possible (mainly for bags, bottles etc) the latter of which represent about 13% of total plastics used. 

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