SCIE 1P50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rare Earth Element, Revised Version, Bioavailability
3 Dec 2015
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Note: topic change from carbon footprints and seafood sustainability to rare earth elements. Science; scholarsportal; academic search complete; taylor and francis. Journals] commentary, from a non-peer reviewed source, or written by a science writer/journalist or staff writer conclusion/discussion, references: article can not be a letter to the editor, a news item, a review, a. Mercury hg used in electrical apparatus, chemical manufacturing (used in production to result in the desired product or as a catalyst), production of mildew-proof paint, and in industrial and control instruments disposal often problematic. Minamata (japanese city) nippon chisso corp chemical factory . These factories used mercury in production, resulting in mercury being dumped into the environment between 1932 and. 1968 [~25 tons] due to the low regulations on using mercury in production. Areas close to these factories were used for fishing and shellfish collection, which would consume the methylmercury that was metabolized by the aquatic ecosystem this accumulation resulted in high, potentially dangerous levels.
