Re: Mercury scam?

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/6/2004 9:37:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM> writes:



>Did you calculate the amount of mercury deposited in

>the ocean from the burning of coal and other

>industrial processes?  What form is the mercury

>entering the oceans?  As an organic form that can be

>absorbed by biota?

>



1.  mercury emitted from coal-burning power plants is emitted as mercuric oxide -- pretty insoluble in sea water.

2.  Metallic mercury is emitted directly into waterways from chlor-alkali production (there is an EPA limit for this).

3.  Metallic mercury apparently can be methylated by marine organisms to form dimethyk mercury.



ruth



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