"mercury" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Accumulating in humans, mercury can enter the central nervous system, causing loss of muscle control, brain damage and death.
- In pregnant women, mercury can enter the placenta, causing birth defects.
- As a vapor, however, elemental mercury rapidly enters the bloodstream once breathed in.
- Unfortunately, the mercury often enters and contaminates creeks.
- Metallic mercury, the kind the teen-agers found and played with here, enters the blood when vapors given off by the heavy liquid are inhaled.
- The D.E.P. said mercury enters Connecticut waterways primarily from atmospheric contamination, which sinks into sediment.
- When released in the air as a byproduct of burning coal, mercury drifts over lakes and rivers and enters the food chain through fish and shellfish.
- In combination with other studies showing that mercury vapor can seep out of dental fillings, they presented a picture of how mercury might enter the intestines.
- The short-life cyanide was undetectable within a few years, but the residual mercury remained in the sediment and entered the food chain.
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