Re: Sweden nuke thread vs. Mercury in coal airborne impacts

[RadiumProj@cs.com]

In a message dated 8/8/00 10:46:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lexicon@hotbot.com writes:

> Subj:  Re: Sweden nuke thread vs. Mercury in coal airborne impacts
>  Date:    8/8/00 10:46:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>  From:    lexicon@hotbot.com (Tom Savin)
>  Sender:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
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>  
>   Interesting note - pike are one of the few fish that can survive in water 
> that is pH 4.0-4.5, is it that they can survive higher levels of mercury 
too? 
> A lower pH aids in solubilizing heavy metals.  One might be able to tie 
this 
> in with acidic rain.
>  --
>  
Radsafe:
None of the Hg levels in fish are any health problems for the fish to my 
knowledge. See my prior post for summary of evidence of link between 
protracted acid rain and increasing bioconversion of sediment bound inorganic 
mercurials based on solid research out of the University of Mass. Water 
Resources Center in research in Quabbin Reservoir, in central Mass.

Stewart Farber, MSPH 
email: radiumproj@cs.com
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