The inhibitory effect of sodium selenite on biliary secretion of methyl mercury was examined in rats. The biliary secretion of methyl mercury in rat treated with 1 mumol/kg of methyl mercury was significantly decreased by administration of selenite at doses of 0.05 mumol/kg or higher. In rats given 10 mumol/kg of methyl mercury, marked depression of biliary secretion of mercury was observed whe...

A series of batch tests were conducted to investigate the relative desorption potential of mercury from kaolin and glacial till soils under the effect of three extractant agents, namely, KI, NaEDTA and NaCl (all of them with a concentration of 0.1 M). These tests were conducted under different pH conditions (within a pH range between 2 and 12). Also batch tests using deionized water were perfor...

A neutral thione extractant, 1,3-diethylimidazole-2-thione (C2C2ImT), was prepared from an ionic liquid (IL), 1,3-diethylimidazolium acetate, and used within a hydrophobic ionic liquid, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonamide ([C2mim][NTf2]), to extract Hg(II) from aqueous solutions of HgCl2 or Hg(OAc)2. Investigations of the extraction mechanism, spectroscopic analyses of ...

A method employing dual competitive ligand exchange followed by solid phase extraction (CLE-SPE) for characterizing the complexation of inorganic Hg(II) in natural waters is described. This method employs parallel use of two competing ligands: diethyldithiolcarbamate (DEDC), which forms hydrophobic complexes with Hg(II), and thiosalicylic acid (TSA), which forms hydrophilic complexes with Hg(II...

The production of medical isotopes in Chalk River Laboratories facilities (Chalk River, ON, Canada) has resulted a large quantity cemented radioactive waste (CRW) containing valuable elements such as uranium. From the perspective recovering and ultimately recycling from CRW, solubilization key constituents uranium, mercury, cesium been previously investigated using H2SO4/KI. However, to achieve...

Synthetic routes to the first boryl complexes of cadmium and mercury are reported via transmetallation from boryllithium; the syntheses of related group 14 systems highlight the additional factors associated with extension to more redox-active post-transition elements.

This paper describes a indirect complexometric method for the determination of mercury in the presence of co-ions, based on the selective masking ability of potassium iodide. To the mixture of mercury (II) and other metal ion solution, EDTA solution was added in excess of the metal ions present. The pH of the solution was adjusted to 5.0-6.0 using solid hexamine (10 ± 2 g) and surplus EDTA was ...

BACKGROUND Industrial pollution may affect the heavy metal body burden of people living near industrial complexes. We determined the average concentrations of atmospheric heavy metals in areas close to and distant from industrial complexes in Korea, and the body concentrations of these heavy metals in residents living near and distant from these facilities. METHODS The atmospheric data of hea...