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Characteristics and treatment of elemental mercury intoxication: A case series
Health Science Reports, 2021 Background and aims Elemental mercury toxicity is a rare condition which can be difficult to diagnose due to its nonspecific signs and symptoms. The purpose of this investigation is to describe the presenting characteristics and treatment of adult and ...
Kelly Johnson‐Arbor +2 more
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Assessment and management of elemental mercury poisoning—a case report
Clinical Case Reports, 2017 Key Clinical Message We describe a patient with elemental mercury aspiration and retention in the appendix after elemental mercury ingestion. Conservative management was proved to be successful for the removal of the mercury from the appendix while we do
George Bazoukis +4 more
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International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 2020 Due to the restriction such as the Minamata Convention as well as the IED of the European Commission, mercury removal from flue gases of coal-fired power plants (CPP) is an increasingly important environmental issue.
Piotr Kunecki +2 more
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Advanced Science, 2019 The key challenge of vapor‐phase elemental mercury (Hg0) sequestration is the rational design of a sorbent with abundantly available ligands that exhibit excellent affinity toward Hg0 to simultaneously achieve a high uptake capacity and rapid capture ...
Zequn Yang +8 more
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Effective Decontamination and Remediation After Elemental Mercury Exposure: A Case Report in the United States [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2021 Elemental mercury exposure can result in significant toxicity. Source decontamination and remediation are often required after larger elemental mercury exposures, but the details of these processes are infrequently reported. In the case described herein,
Kelly Johnson-Arbor, Brian Schultz
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Comparing ecosystem gaseous elemental mercury fluxes over a deciduous and coniferous forest
Nature Communications, 2023 Forests are sinks for the neurotoxic mercury, but the sinks have large uncertainties. Our direct gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) exchange measurements show that GEM exchange includes complex patterns of multiple pathways to different ecosystem ...
Jun Zhou +6 more
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Identification of mercury species in spent fluorescent lamps and mercury recovery by distillation
Energy Reports, 2023 The discarding of spent fluorescent lamps, one of the most significant sources of mercury usage in industry, might cause mercury release into the environment when suffering from breakage.
Tong Li +3 more
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Transformation of Elemental Mercury by Bacteria [PDF]
Applied Microbiology, 1975 The fate and impact of elemental mercury in closed bacterial cultures were examined. The quantity of elemental mercury oxidized by bacteria ranged from small amounts for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, P. fluorescens, Escherichia coli , and Citrobacter to essentially all of the added elemental ...
H W, Holm, M F, Cox
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Journal of International Medical Research, 2023 Elemental mercury impaction in the appendix can cause subsequent local and systemic complications. We present a case of a teenage boy who ingested approximately 10 mL of elemental mercury, resulting in residual mercury sequestration in the appendix after
Guibin Yao +5 more
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Elemental mercury poisoning caused by subcutaneous and intravenous injection: An unusual self-injury
Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging, 2010 Elemental mercury poisoning most commonly occurs through vapor inhalation as mercury is well absorbed through the lungs. Administering subcutaneous and intravenous elemental mercury is very uncommon but with only a few isolated case reports in the ...
Wale Jaywant, Yadav Pankaj, Garg Shairy
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