They further stated that mercury in the tissues and blood following Thimerosal treatment is predominantly found
as inorganic mercury, but a considerable amount of ethyl mercury is also found in the liver and brain.
As inorganic mercury in our air, soil and water enters the oceans, aquatic microbes convert it to methylmercury — a form readily absorbed by sea life.
Not exact matches
Inorganic mercury builds up far more in your organs of elimination — it's 100 times
as high in your kidneys and liver than in your brain.
Daily sauna sweating can help detoxify your body
as it rids itself of accumulated highly toxic metals (lead,
mercury, nickel, and cadmium)
as well
as alcohol, nicotine, sulfuric acid, and other organic and
inorganic compounds.
As a side effect of their normal metabolic processes, sulfate - reducing bacteria convert
inorganic mercury into the organic compound methylmercury.
Direct anthropogenic sources such
as coal combustion, however, still release large amounts of
inorganic mercury into the atmosphere, either
as gaseous elemental
mercury (GEM; Hg °) or
as divalent gaseous
mercury species (Hg2 +)(3).
It is also important to note that once the
mercury from Thimerosal enters the brain, some of it remains in the form of ethyl
mercury, and some is found
as methyl
mercury and
inorganic mercury.