Mercury-contaminated chemical wastewater of a mercury cell chloralkali plant was cleaned on site by a technical-scale bioremediation system. Microbial mercury reduction of soluble Hg(II) to precipitating Hg(0) decreased the mercury load of the wastewater during its flow through the bioremediation system by up to 99%. The system consisted of a packed-bed bioreactor, where most of the wastewater'...

Renal disposition of administered inorganic mercury was studied in rats that had undergone an acute bilateral ureteral ligation shortly before being injected with a nontoxic 0.5-micromol/kg iv dose of inorganic mercury with or without 2.0 micromol/kg glutathione (GSH) or cysteine. Ureteral ligation and induction of "stop-flow" conditions were carried out to decrease glomerular filtration rate t...

The current study was aimed to investigate the mercury pollution in urban road runoff. A total of 34 rainfall events were monitored on 5 independent road catchments from 2015 to 2016 in Nanjing city, China. Events mean concentrations of mercury and the impact factors of mercury pollution in urban road runoff were also carried out in the current study. Results revealed that the concentration of ...

Mercury at low concentrations represents a major hazard to microorganisms. Inorganic mercury has been reported to produce harmful effects at 5 microg/l in a culture medium. Organomercury compounds can exert the same effect at concentrations 10 times lower than this. The organic forms of mercury are generally more toxic to aquatic organisms and birds than the inorganic forms. Aquatic plants are ...

Energy-efficient lighting is one of the key measures for addressing electric power shortages and climate change mitigation, and fluorescent lamps are expected to dominate the lighting market in China over the next several years. This review presents an overview on the emissions and risk of mercury from fluorescent lamps during production and disposal, and discusses measures for reducing the mer...

Mercury toxicity is highly correlated with hypertension, coronary heart disease (CHD), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and other cardiovascular disease. Mercury has a high affinity for sulfhydryl (-SH) groups, which inactivates numerous enzymatic reactions, amino acids, and sulfur-containing antioxidants [NAC (n-acetyl cysteine, ALA (alpha lipoic acid), GSH (glutathione)], with subsequent de...

We present the results of an infrared spectroscopy study of topological insulators Bi(2)Se(3), Bi(2)Te(3) and Sb(2)Te(3). Reflectance spectra of all three materials look similar, with a well defined plasma edge. However, there are some important differences. Most notably, as temperature decreases the plasma edge shifts to lower frequencies in Bi(2)Se(3), whereas in Bi(2)Te(3) and Sb(2)Te(3) it ...

mercury is quantitatively retained with 1, 5-diphenylcarbazone (dpc) on microcrystallinenaphthalene in the ph range 6.5-8.5 from a large volume of aqueous solutions of various samples.after filtration, the solid mass consisting of the mercury complex and naphthalene was dissolvedin 5.0 ml of dimethylformamide (dmf) and mercury was determined by spectrophotometricmethod at 542 nm against the rea...

the aim of this study is to determine of mercury levels in various internal organs of the fereydunkenar international wetland’s birds for the first time and to determine the influence of this metal on their health. this study has been done in the fereydunkenar international wetland where is the most important wetland habitat of the central areas of hyrcanian ecosystem. fereydunkenar internation...