Inorganic mercury converted to more toxic and bio-accumulative monomethylmercury in ocean waters, possibly by microbes
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
The grave results from localized MMHg contamination in natural waters have been tragically demonstrated by the mass poisonings at Minamata and Niigata, Japan. Louis, Holger Hintelmann, Jane L. Oddly, MMHg, which is more toxic than either Hg° or other Hg 2+ species, is the principal form of Hg in fish. —Igor Lehnherr.
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