mercury

Mercury, also called quicksilver, is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg (Latinized Greek: hydrargyrum, meaning watery or liquid silver) and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery transition metal, mercury is one of five elements that are liquid at or near room temperature and pressure. (The others are the metals caesium, francium, and gallium, and the non-metal bromine.)

Mercury is used in thermometers, barometers and other scientific apparatus, though concerns about the element's toxicity have led to mercury thermometers being largely phased out in clinical environments in favour of alcohol-filled, digital or thermistor-based instruments. It remains in use in a number of other ways in scientific and scientific research applications, and in dental amalgam. Mercury is mostly obtained by reduction from the mineral, cinnabar.

Mercury occurs in deposits throughout the world and it is relatively harmless in an insoluble form, such as mercuric sulfide, but it is poisonous in soluble forms such as mercuric chloride or methylmercury.



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Link database: US EPA: Clean Water Act Analytical Methods: Method 1631: Measurement of Mercury in Water
Instrument database: Thomas Cain Inc. - DEENA-m Automated Sample Digestion system for Metals Analysis
Link database: Hazardous Substances Data Bank: Mercury Compounds
Link database: Thimerosal allergy
Directory of scientists: Evert Nieboer
Link database: Australian Government: National Pollutant Inventory: Mercury & compounds
Material database: IRMM - Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements - ERM-BD150: Skimmed milk powder
Material database: Canadian Certified Reference Materials Project (CCRMP) - CCU-1c Copper Concentrate
Toxic Methylmercury-Producing Microbes More Widespread Than Realized | EVISA's News
Material database: IRMM - Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements - ERM-EC681K POLYETHYLENE (high level)
In vivo Quantification of the Transition of Brain Extracellular Mercury after Thimerosal Administration | EVISA's News
Material database: IRMM - Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements - BCR-176R - Fly ash
Certified reference materials for mercury in marine animal tissues | EVISA's News
Link database: FDA: Mercury Poisoning Linked to Skin Products
Link database: Mineral Information Institute: Thallium
Instrument database: Shawcity Ltd. - AMI - Autozeroing Mercury Indicator.
Material database: Sigma-Aldrich - Matrix CRM - Soil, Sludge, Sediment: Trace Metals - Sandy Loam 6
Material database: JRC - Joint Research Centre - ERM-CE278 - Mussel tissue (mytilus edulis)
Material database: Sigma-Aldrich - Matrix CRM - Soil, Sludge, Sediment: TCLP Metals - Sandy Loam 12