Original title: Information on Several Interesting Case Reports of Liquid Mercury Intoxication
Authors: Navrátil, Tomáš ; Vlčková, Š. ; Mrázová, K. ; Nováková, Kateřina ; Zakharov, S. ; Honsová, Š. ; Pelclová, D.
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Moderní elektrochemické metody /35./, Jetřichovice (CZ), 20150518
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: This contribution reports on several mercury non-professional intoxications. It can be summarized that it is very important to differentiate among forms of mercury which can (acute or chronic) endanger human health. Contrarily to the wide spread fears, liquid mercury represents low danger for men and for environment. Solid amalgams are probably the less toxic forms of mercury compounds. On the other hand, widely spread daily consumer goods can be very dangerous and toxic (saving balls, fluorescent tubes, etc.). Moreover, these goods are not marked as “toxic mercury containing”. The article discusses the instruction for removing mercury from our environment. Most of the reported data are based on database of the Czech Toxicological Information Centre (TIC) (from the years 1995 – 2015).
Keywords: mercury; poisoning; toxicity of mercury
Project no.: GAP208/12/1645 (CEP), GAP206/11/1638 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR, GA ČR
Host item entry: XXXV. Moderní elektrochemické metody. Sborník přednášek mezinárodní odborné konference, ISBN 978-80-905221-3-8

Institution: J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0246979

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