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Methylation of inorganic mercury in polar marine waters
- Source :
- Nature Geoscience. 4:298-302
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- Monomethylmercury is a neurotoxin that accumulates in marine organisms. Incubation experiments suggest that methylation of inorganic mercury accounts for around half of the monomethylmercury present in polar marine waters.
Details
- ISSN :
- 17520908 and 17520894
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Geoscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........80387e54309db6d64ad83afb17e410e9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1134