Or perhaps you've used a thermometer that contains mercury to measure your body temperature, or heard of its use in other ...

Toxics watchdog BAN Toxics commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for issuing public health advisories on the ...

The mercury concentration should be given on an elemental basis, not on a mercury compound basis. The default value is a function of the coal rank. •Mercury in Auxiliary Gas (elemental): This input ...

Although by 1861 this therapeutic method was in decline; dosing with powerful measures of mercury, antimony, arsenic and other deadly compounds was still popular. The botanic-based medical sects ...

[14] Thimerosal has two distinctive components, an organic mercury compound and thiosalicylate, both of which are involved in thimerosal allergy. To determine whether patients with thimerosal ...

Mercury compounds were used until quite recently to make insecticides (chemicals that kill the insects that damage crops) and special paints that stop barnacles growing on the hulls of ships.