Difference between thimerosal and mercury
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noun
- a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic
Examples
Thimerosal, as a preservative, is no longer contained in any childhood vaccine, with the exception of the influenza vaccine.
The others were chlorocresol, cresol, parabens, phenol, phenylethanol, phenyl mercuric salts and thimerosal;
Now, antivax bloggers suggest the vaccine is not safe for children and pregnant woman because of a preservative in the vaccine called thimerosal.
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noun
- a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures
- temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
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According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters.
Just as the latter instrument indicates the pressure of the atmosphere above it, so the bathometer was intended to show the pull of the earth below it; and experiment proved, we believe, that for every 1,000 fathoms of sea-water below the ship, the total gravity of the mercury was reduced by 1/3200 part.
Cayenne pepper, which easily loses its red colour, was tinted with cinnabar, an extremely poisonous mercury compound.
