Browsing by Subject "mercury"
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(2010-10-12)It is impossible to remove methylmercury (MeHg) from biological systems because MeHg is found throughout our environment in many fresh and salt water fish. The consumption of fish is important to human nutrition and health. ...
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(2016-02-22)Over the last 100 years, the Galveston Bay (GB) Estuary has experienced a wide range of anthropogenic activities. The bay’s watershed and shoreline contains one of the largest concentrations of petroleum and chemical ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation focuses on the phosphorescence of organic chromophores using perfluoro-ortho-phenylene mercury (1) and bis(pentafluorophenyl)mercury (2) as external heavy atom effect inducers. To ascertain the suitability ...
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(2015-07-17)Mercury (Hg) is one of the most detrimental by-products of industrial activities such as fossil fuel combustion and mining. In this study, adsorption and photocatalytic reduction of mercury (II) into elemental mercury using ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The major goal of this research is the development of a competitive ligand equilibration-solvent solvent extraction (CLE-SSE) method to determine organically complexed mercury species in estuarine water. The method was ...
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(2009-05-15)Coal fired power plants will face many challenges in the near future as new regulations, such as the Clear Sky Act, are being implemented. These regulations impose much stricter limits on NOx emissions and plan to impose ...
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(2017-08-07)The Trinity River is a historically polluted river with records of various contaminants including organochlorine pesticides and their metabolites (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and Mercury (Hg) detected in ...
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The inundation associated with flooding events often transfers otherwise abnormal levels of contaminants into the ecosystem. The Houston/Galveston region poses a unique threat due to the high concentration of petrochemical ...
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(1979)Overt poisoning by some trace elements (Cu, Hg, Mn, Pb) is known to cause extensive central nervous system damage which can result in mental retardation. Recent evidence indicates that low, undetectable exposure to lead ...