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Exposure to Mercury can result in a range of health effects, including damage to the nervous, digestive, and immune systems. Symptoms can include tremors, insomnia, memory loss, headaches, and impaired cognitive function. Severe cases of mercury poisoning can cause kidney failure and be fatal.
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What is Mercury obtained?
The consumption of fish is by far the most significant source of ingestion-related mercury exposure in humans, although plants and livestock also contain mercury. Exposure to mercury can occur from breathing contaminated air; from eating foods containing mercury residues from processing, such as can occur with high fructose corn syrup; from exposure to mercury vapor in mercury amalgam dental restorations; and from improper use or disposal of mercury and mercury-containing objects.Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
What disease did hat makers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suffer from?
they used Mercury to make the hats, so they eventually went crazy from over exposure to Mercury... look up symptoms on google for mercury exposure
What does rashes look like due to mercury exposure?
evil.
Does a tan or sun burn mean a result of exposure to ultraviolet light?
Both a tan and a burn result from exposure to ultraviolet light.
Will Mercury kill cattle?
Yes. Mercury has the very same effects on cattle as it does on humans, which means that any level or exposure of mercury can and will kill.
What did Sir Issac Newton die from?
Large amounts of Mercury exposure.
What danger can mercury cause?
Toxicology: How Mercury Harms HumansElemental (metallic) mercury and all of its compounds are toxic, exposure to excessive levels can permanently damage or fatally injure the brain and kidneys. Elemental mercury can also be absorbed through the skin and cause allergic reactions. Ingestion of inorganic mercury compounds can cause severe renal and gastrointestinal damage. Organic compounds of mercury such as methyl mercury are considered the most toxic forms of the element. Exposures to very small amounts of these compounds can result in devastating neurological damage and death. For fetuses, infants and children, the primary health effects of mercury are on neurological development. Even low levels of mercury exposure such as result from mother's consumption methylmercury in dietary sources can adversely affect the brain and nervous system. Impacts on memory, attention, language and other skills have been found in children exposed to moderate levels in the womb.
What can Mercury in tuna do you?
Mercury poisoning (also known as mercurialism, hydrargyria, Hunter-Russell syndrome, or acrodynia when affecting children) is a disease caused by exposure to mercury or its toxic compounds.
What occurs as a result of a rocks exposure to a chemical?
chemical weathering
Radiation symptoms can result from a single exposure and are contagious?
False.NO
Raddiation symptoms can result from a single exposure and are contagious?
FALSE
How does over exposure to the sun impact cataract formation?
Cataracts can also result from exposure to the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays.
