Environmental Mercury and Man: A Report of an Inter-departmental Working Group on Heavy Metals |
Contents
Concentrations in the environment | 5 |
Chapter 4 | 26 |
Emissions to waters | 29 |
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absorption Agano River agricultural alkylmercury amounts of mercury animals aquatic areas atmosphere average birds cent cereal seed chloralkali process chlorine concentrations of mercury consumption deposits disposal effluent emissions estuaries excretion exposure to mercury forms of mercury freshwater fungicides Hasselrot hazard high levels higher HMSO Holden including mercury ingested inorganic mercury Irish Sea levels of mercury liver marine mean mercury compounds mercury content mercury levels mercury vapour mercury-containing methyl methylmercury compounds million tonnes Minamata Bay Minamata Disease monitoring ng/m³ occupationally exposed occur organic organomercury particulate particulate mercury pesticides phenylmercury acetate phytoplankton poisoning ppm dry weight ppm mercury ppm of mercury production quantity of mercury range Report Research rivers samples Scotland sediments seed treatments sewage sludge soils sources of mercury species Stock and Cucuel tissues tonnes annually tonnes of mercury total mercury toxic treated seed unpolluted uptake usually waters World Health Organisation zooplankton µg/m³