By Ronald Eisler
Complicated and ever altering in its varieties and services, the point mercury follows a convoluted direction throughout the surroundings and up the nutrition chain. the method is advanced extra through the truth that the adaptation among tolerable common heritage degrees and damaging results within the surroundings is phenomenally small and nonetheless no longer thoroughly understood. Written by way of famous nationwide and foreign authority on chemical probability evaluation, Ronald Eisler, Mercury risks to residing Organisms explores the organic, actual, and chemical houses of mercury and its compounds. wealthy in proof and knowledge, the ebook presents a primary examine the issues.
A synthesis of present clinical experiences, the e-book files the importance of mercury concentrations in abiotic fabrics, crops, invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles, elasmobranch, fishes, and birds, in addition to people and different mammals. the writer reports old and present makes use of and resources of mercury in addition to its actual, chemical, organic, and biochemical houses. He summarizes mercury shipping and speciation techniques and analytical options for mercury dimension. The ebook comprises insurance of lethality to flora and fauna, family animals, and people; management routes and their results; and sublethal results reminiscent of cancers, start defects, and chromosomal aberrations.
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