The power of phenol to inhibit the growth of the human tubercle bacillus is greatly increased by the substitution of a mercury salt in place of one of the hydrogens, hence a mercury united by one bond ...

Broken thermometers are the cause of numerous calls to the Poison Center. Thermometers with a silver line contain elemental mercury. Thermometers with a red or blue liquid do NOT contain mercury.

A detailed understanding of the formation of the potent neurotoxic methylmercury is needed to explain the large observed variability in methylmercury levels in aquatic systems. While it is known that ...

Inorganic mercury from the ore cinnabar was used for centuries against infections. In modern times, humans synthesized organic mercurials as antimicrobials, such as merthiolate. University of Georgia ...

University of Georgia research has found that inorganic mercury, which was previously thought to be a less harmful form of the toxic metal, is very damaging to key cell processes. This study is the ...

Inorganic mercury, which was previously thought to be a less harmful form of the toxic metal, is very damaging to key cell processes, new research demonstrates. University of Georgia research has ...

A 47-year-old woman in Sacramento, California, has been left severely impaired—unable to talk or care for herself and requiring a feeding tube—after using tainted face cream that contained highly ...

Throughout the 1920s a scientist named Morris Kharasch filed a blizzard of applications with the U.S. Patent Office. In 1924: "The present invention relates to the ...