Re: Mercury scam?

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Can mercuric oxide be converted to (methylated?) to

form dimethyk mercury?



--- RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:

> 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

> 

> -- 

> Ruth F. Weiner

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 505-856-5011

> (o)505-284-8406

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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