Sentences with phrase «inorganic mercury into»

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).

As a side effect of their normal metabolic processes, sulfate - reducing bacteria convert inorganic mercury into the organic compound methylmercury.

In contrast, people who do not have healthy gut flora are more prone to candida and other pathogenic bacterial and fungal overgrowth that change inorganic mercury into the more toxic methylated and dimethylated mercury, thus increasing the potential for fat - soluble retention and damage.

Not exact matches

When inorganic mercury (whether from industry or nature) gets into wet soil or a waterway, sulfate - reducing bacteria begin incorporating it into an organic and far more absorbable compound called methylmercury.

So why isn't the inorganic mercury — like that belched from power plants — getting converted into the organic forms that accumulate in fish?

In freshwater lakes and wetlands, inorganic mercury is thought to be turned into methylmercury by sulfate - reducing anaerobic bacteria.

But mercury levels in your urine reflect the mercury coming from your dental fillings (plus some of the fish - based methylmercury that has broken down into inorganic mercury).